(Also known as My Enemy, the Sea.) In 1962, a frail-looking, weather-beaten 19-foot sloop bobbed under the Golden Gate Bridge, a lone young passenger on board. "Where're you from?" called guests on a nearby yacht. "Japan," came the startling reply. Alone on the Pacific, based on the best-selling log book of Ken-Ichi Horie, recreates his incredible 90-day journey from Osaka to San Francisco. The story would naturally attract Kon Ichikawa, whose films are a continuing exploration of the outsider; but whereas, in his darker masterpieces (see Sunday, July 24 and 31), his loners and pariahs explore the basic inhumanity of man's existence, Alone on the Pacific represents the lighter side of Ichikawa, who began, by his own accounting, as a student of Disney. This is a story of the buoyancy as well as the loneliness of the human condition; Ichikawa distances us from any notions of pathos with a running commentary that is not above using animation to make its points. As the dreamy but indefatigable youth, Japanese film star Yujiro Ishihara imbues the crusade with passion and a certain obsessive dottiness. Courageously attacking hopeless meals (brown rice cooked in beer); fearful lest a passing plane try to rescue him; in flashback scenes, battling with his obdurate family; or weeping at the awesome ferocity of a storm at sea, Ishihara/Horie is quite convincingly alone on a very imposing (CinemaScope) plane. Alone on the Pacific has not been seen locally for some twenty years. (This archival print shows some color deterioration.)