Shanghai Landing Party (1939)
上海陸戦隊
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.
- Date of release
- 1939-05-19
- TMDB
- 5.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Genres
- Documentary, War
- Director
- Hisatora Kumagai
Casting
- Den Obinata — LTJD Mine (as Den Obinata)
- Sōji Kiyokawa — ENS Maeda
- Hyo Kitazawa
- Ko Yamamuro
- Mitsuo Tsuda
- Ichiro Tetsu — ENS Todo
- Kan Yanagiya
- Hideo Nakamura
- Hachiro Sekiguchi
- Ryo Sayama
- Hideo Saeki — SN Oishi
- Yoshio Kosugi
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