Watch Hell in the Pacific For Free

To me, this movie is perfection.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

When "Hell in the Pacific" debuted, it lost a buttload of money. And, after having just watched it, I can understand exactly why. It's slow beyond belief...and a great cure to insomnia!There really is no context for the film--you just have a Japanese soldier (Toshiro Mifune) and an American (Lee Marvin) stranded on an island during WWII. You later gather that Marvin's character must have been a pilot who was shot down...you know almost nothing about Mifune's. And, for much of the film, they torment and try to kill each other. Later, they call a truce and build a raft and leave. My wife kept saying "I hope they drown" during the raft sequence and I can't fault her. The film ran at a snail's pace and it mostly consisted of the two idiots yelling at each other in their native languages (oddly, they never figured to try to teach the other their language) and this made for a film that practically yelled "Turn me off" because it was so slow and unsatisfying.

. ...In 1969 I was a Marine infantryman. The Corps sent me to RVN free of charge. I did, however, get to spend time in Hong Kong. While others may have spent all their time carousing, I watched as many films as possible while there. ...My Chinese date took me to see a film in Mandarin with English and Cantonese subtitles. We also saw McKenna's Gold with Cantonese subtitles... and most relevant... Hell in the Pacific with Cantonese and English subtitles. In short, I got to understand every comment that Torshiro Mifune uttered. (Spoiler alert...)...Not that it added a great deal to the film. When Mifune's character gets urinated on, he charges in the ocean to wash himself shouting, "Dirty, dirty!" When he gets drunk near the end he expresses his melancholia by singing a dirge, "If I die on the land, I'll be a land corpse, if I die on the sea, I'll be a sea corpse..." Not the best frame of mind to be interrupted by Marvin's character....In short, you didn't miss a lot by being in the same boat as Marvin's character and understanding so little. But the Chinese didn't get it and just slapped on the subtitles... Rhodesia Jim

Excellent film. Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune find themselves alone on a deserted Pacific island. The first represents USA & West, and the other Japan & Orient. First they are in conflict then they realize they must together find their way out of the island. To do so, they need to overcome cultural and language differences... There are some splendid and funny situations. Beautiful nature offered plenty of beautiful shots. Anyway, this story is about Pacific war, how it started, how it ended, what would happen after the war. But disturbing ending shows us eternal damnation of humankind.(you can find somewhere alternative ending but it is pretty the same).

In World War II, a shot-down American pilot (Lee Marvin) and the marooned Japanese Captain Tsuruhiko Kuroda (Toshiro Mifune) are stranded in a small island in the Pacific. When they find the presence of each other, the American tries to steal the water provision of the Japanese that protects it, initiating their personal war. After a period fighting each other, they decide to join forces and build a bamboo raft to seek a larger island."Hell in the Pacific" is a good movie about how struggle to survive supersedes any other feelings even in times of war. The Japanese and the American soldiers find how pointless is their fight and resolve their situation joining forces and learning to accept and respect their culture differences despite the language barrier and warfare. Surprisingly they also become friends but the abrupt conclusion is too stupid and meaningless, apparently imposed by the studio. The alternate ending is also terrible but better then the original one. In 1985, Wolfgang Petersen used the same idea in a futuristic environment in "Enemy Mine". My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "Inferno no Pacífico" ("Hell in the Pacific")