Shanghai Landing Party (1939)

93 min · Japan · Dir. Hisatora Kumagai

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.

Cast

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

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