Shanghai Landing Party 1939
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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.
- Released: 1939-05-19
- Runtime: 93 minutes
- Genre: Documentary, War
- Stars: Den Obinata, Sōji Kiyokawa, Hyo Kitazawa, Ko Yamamuro, Mitsuo Tsuda
- Director: Hisatora Kumagai, Nobuyoshi Morita, Tsutomu Sawamura, Hiroshi Suzuki, Shigeharu Yasue
