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Hell in the Pacific ()

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During World War II, an American pilot and a marooned Japanese navy captain are deserted on a small uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean. There, they must cease their hostility and cooperate if they want to survive, but will they?
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American Pilot
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Captain Tsuruhiko Kuroda (as Toshiro Mifune)

Directed by

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John Boorman

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Alexander Jacobs ... (screenplay) and
Eric Bercovici ... (screenplay)
 
Reuben Bercovitch ... (story)
 
Shinobu Hashimoto ... () (uncredited)

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Reuben Bercovitch ... producer
Henry G. Saperstein ... executive producer
Selig J. Seligman ... executive producer

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Lalo Schifrin

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Conrad L. Hall ... director of photography (as Conrad Hall)

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Thomas Stanford

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Neil Travis ... assistant editor

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Anthony Pratt ... (as Anthony D. G. Pratt)
Masao Yamazaki

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Makoto Kikuchi

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Shigeo Kobayashi ... makeup artist

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Lloyd Anderson ... production manager (as Lloyd E. Anderson)
Harry F. Hogan ... production manager
Isao Zeniya ... production manager

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Yoichi Matsue ... assistant director

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Kesataka Sato ... property master
Frank Wade ... property master (as Frank A. Wade)

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Clem Portman ... re-recording supervisor
Toru Sakata ... sound recording (as Tooru Sakata)
Tetsuo Segawa ... boom operator
Frank E. Warner ... sound effects
Bert Hallberg ... location sound engineer (uncredited)
Gordon Sawyer ... recording supervisor (uncredited)

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Kunishige Tanaka ... special effects
Joe Zomar ... special effects

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Arthur Brooker ... key grip
Jordan Cronenweth ... camera operator
Harry Sundby ... lighting
Earl L. Clark ... assistant camera (uncredited)
Michael A. Jones ... best boy (uncredited) / rigging gaffer (uncredited)

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Jim Henrikson ... music editor (as James Henrikson)
Emil Richards ... musician: percussion (uncredited)

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John Franco ... script supervisor

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Masaaki Asukai ... technical adviser
Bert Hallberg ... communications
Henry G. Saperstein ... presenter
B.C. Wylie ... production assistant (as B. C. {Doc} Wylie)
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Plot Summary

During World War II, a shot-down American pilot and a marooned Japanese navy captain find themselves stranded on the same small uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean. Following war logic, each time the crafty Japanese devises something useful, he guards it to deny its use to the Yank, who then steals it, its proceeds or the idea and/or ruins it. Yet each gets his chance to kill and/or capture the other, but neither pushes this to the end. After a while of this pointless pestering, they end up joining forces to build and man a raft... Written by KGF Vissers

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Taglines They hunted each other as enemies...they tormented each other as savages...they faced each other as men! See more »
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Also Known As
  • Duel dans le Pacifique (France)
  • Die Hölle sind wir (Germany)
  • Infierno en el Pacífico (Spain)
  • Duello nel Pacifico (Italy)
  • Δυο λιοντάρια στον Ειρηνικό (Greece)
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  • 103 min
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Budget $4,150,000 (estimated)

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Trivia Both Lee Marvin and Toshirô Mifune actually served in the Pacific during World War II, of course on opposing sides. Marvin was a US Marine. He was wounded during the war and received the Purple Heart during the Battle of Saipan in 1944. Mifune served in the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service. See more »
Goofs Near the end of the movie, when Kuroda flips through the pages of the magazine, he repeats himself. In the close up he comes across the page filled with eyes, and then in the wider shot he again comes across that page. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in Hollywood Remembers Lee Marvin (2000). See more »
Soundtracks Down in the Cane Brake See more »
Quotes American Pilot: Oh, for a second I thought you were a Jap.
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