Shanghai Landing Party (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.
Director:
Hisatora Kumagai
Writer:
Tsutomu Sawamura
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Den Obinata as LTJD Mine (as Den Obinata) |
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Sōji Kiyokawa as ENS Maeda |
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Hyo Kitazawa as |
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Ko Yamamuro as |
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Mitsuo Tsuda as |
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Ichiro Tetsu as ENS Todo |
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Kan Yanagiya as |
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Hideo Nakamura as |
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Hachiro Sekiguchi as |
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Ryo Sayama as |
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Hideo Saeki as SN Oishi |
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Yoshio Kosugi as |
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Ichirō Tsukida as |
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Jun Masaki as |
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Isamu Eto as |
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Toshio Miki as |
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Zenichiro Kito as |
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Sadao Maruyama as |
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Keiji Sakakida as |
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Kinji Fujiwa as |
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Kenho Nakamura as |
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Yuriko Hanabusa as |
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Kumeko Otowa as |
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Sumie Tsubaki as Sulian - Chinese woman who bears child |
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Setsuko Hara as Mingzhu - Chinese girl |
| Directing | Hisatora Kumagai | Director |
| Camera | Hiroshi Suzuki | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Shigeharu Yasue | Sound Recordist |
| Art | Takeo Kita | Settings |
| Writing | Tsutomu Sawamura | Screenplay |
| Editing | Zenju Imaizumi | Editor |
| Production | Nobuyoshi Morita | Executive Producer |
| Lighting | Kiichi Horiuchi | Lighting Technician |