Shanghai Landing Party
MovieTitle | 上海陸戦隊 |
User score | 5 |
Release date | May 19, 1939 |
Genre | Documentary, War |
Director | Hisatora Kumagai |
Production country | Japan |
Production companies | Toho Eiga Co., Ltd. |
Run time | 93 min. |
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.