Orang Ikan (4 Stars)

This is the tenth film in the Stuttgart Nights Festival.

A Japanese ship is carrying American POWs to Japan in 1942. On the way it's attacked by American fighter jets and sinks. There are only two survivors: an American captain called Bronson and a Japanese soldier called Saito. They're washed onto the shore of a small unnamed island. They forge an uneasy friendship, despite not understanding one another's language. They even have problem understanding each other's names. Bronson is called Blonson, and Saito is called Psycho. That's close enough.

On the island there's a small family of monsters. When other Japanese soldiers land on the island they're slaughtered. Only Bronson and Saito survive. They realise that defence isn't enough to survive, they have to attack the monsters.

The film suffers from a common mistake in modern films. There are frequent night scenes, and the picture is too dark to show what's happening.