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Shanghai Landing Party

5.0 93 mins Documentary   War   1939
Toho Eiga  
Director(s): Hisatora Kumagai

Release Date: 19 Fri, May 1939

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.

Casts of Shanghai Landing Party

Den Obinata

as LTJD Mine (as Den Obinata)

Sōji Kiyokawa

as ENS Maeda

Ichiro Tetsu

as ENS Todo

Hideo Saeki

as SN Oishi

Sumie Tsubaki

as Sulian - Chinese woman who bears child

Setsuko Hara

as Mingzhu - Chinese girl

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