

Hell in the Pacific
Out of violence, compassion. Out of suspicion, trust. Out of hell, hope.
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.
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195 votes
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $4.2M
- Box office
- $3.2M
- Language
- Japanese
- japan
- world war ii
- pilot
- u.s. air force
- naval officer
- pacific war
- marooned
- pacific island
- airplane crash
- american
- japanese soldier
- american soldiers
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United States of America
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalG19 Dec 1968
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalPG1 May 1969
ArgentinaAR
- PremiereMar del Plata Film Festival13 Nov 2009
BelgiumBE
- Theatrical5 Dec 1969
CzechiaCZ
- Physical1 Feb 1995
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical23 Feb 1970
FinlandFI
- Theatrical14 Nov 1969
FranceFR
- Theatrical27 Aug 1969
GermanyDE
- Theatrical16West Germany 5 Sept 1969
GreeceGR
- PremiereThessaloniki International Film Festival9 Nov 2001
HungaryHU
- Theatrical7 Oct 1978
IrelandIE
- Theatrical8 May 1970
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Hell in the Pacific was released on 19 December 1968.
Audience reviews
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david_carry
9/4/2026
> *It's a war movie with almost no fighting. It's a survival movie that's more interested in psychology than fishing tips. An American pilot and a Japanese captain wash up on the same island, and instead of immediately killing each other, they spend most of the runtime playing this elaborate, frustrated game of cat-and-mouse . There's a lot of posturing, a lot of yelling in languages neither understands, and some gen…
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