Shanghai Landing Party (1939)
Original title: 上海陸戦隊
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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.
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Den ObinataLTJD Mine (as Den Obinata)Sōji KiyokawaENS Maeda
Hyo KitazawaKo Yamamuro
Mitsuo TsudaIchirô TetsuENS Todo
Kan YanagiyaHideo NakamuraHachiro SekiguchiRyo Sayama
Hideo SaekiSN Oishi
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What is Shanghai Landing Party about?
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.
How long is Shanghai Landing Party?
Shanghai Landing Party has a runtime of 93 minutes.