Human

The film takes place on the open sea. A ship called the Kaijin Maru is caught in a storm. Its means of navigation are broken. The ship is carried by the current. Four people are aboard. They cannot see land. The days pass. The food runs low. The water is close to gone. The order among them begins to break down. Each thinks about his own share. Trust gives way to suspicion. Hunger decides what they do. What they say and what they do come apart. The wait at sea drags on. Nobody believes help is coming. The film tells that closed world in a hard register. Taiji Tonoyama and Nobuko Otowa appear in the one hundred seventeen minute film, a Japanese production Kaneto Shindō finished in 1962.