| Cage on the Sea | |
| Title Orig: | 絶海密室 |
| Orig Lang Code: | ja |
| Translator: | Giles Murray |
| Author: | Kaoru Ohno |
| Cover Artist: | Kasia Bytnerowicz |
| Country: | Japan |
| Language: | Japanese |
| Publisher: | Bento Books (English) |
| Release Date: | 1998 (1st edition) |
| Media Type: | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages: | 420 (English 1st ed. hardcover 2014) |
| Isbn: | 0-98395-138-1 |
| Isbn Note: | (English 1st ed. hardcover 2014) |
is a 1998 novel, written by Japanese author Kaoru Ohno about a group of Japanese holdouts on the island of Anatahan in the Pacific Ocean. The Anatahan holdouts had also inspired a 1953 film, Anatahan.
During the Pacific War, after three Japanese supply ships are sunk off the shore of Anatahan, the survivors are taken in by Kikuichiro Higa and Kazuko, his live-in wife, who have a small coconut plantation on the island. Commanding officer, Sgt. Junzo Itami, tries to maintain discipline, but as the group endures U.S. airstrikes and food shortages order begins to break down. Soon the men become obsessed with Kazuko, the lone woman on the island, and a vicious dynamic sets in among the survivors.
The novel received a favorable review from Tim Hornyak in The Japan Times.[1]