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Shanghai Landing Party (1939)
Directed by Hisatora Kumagai
Overview
This film attempts to reconstruct the tension of the Battle of Shanghai through an episode in an understated way, introducting its story in a documentary mode. In the film story, Japan’s marine regiment protects Japanese residents and Chinese refugees-women and young children-from rampant street fighting, Shanhai Rikusentai unsparingly uses its first eight minutes for an official-mannered self-justification of the war. From the viewpoint of explaining Japan’s military operation,the narration refers to the city s spatial division in sync with maps on screen.
Length 93 minutes
Actors
Den Ohinata | Sôji Kiyokawa | Hyo Kitazawa | Hajime Hikari | Mitsuo Tsuda | Ichirô Tetsu | Kan Yanagiya | Hideo Nakamura | Hachiro Sekiguchi | Ryo Sayama | Hideo Saeki | Yoshio Kosugi | Ichirô Tsukida | Jun Masaki | Isamu Eto | Toshio Miki | Zenichiro Kito | Sadao Maruyama | Keiji Sakakida | Kinji Fujiwa | Kenho Nakamura | Yuriko Hanabusa | Kumeko Otowa | Sumie Tsubaki | Setsuko Hara