Shanghai Landing Party

Overview

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.

Directed by Hisatora Kumagai

Top cast

Den Obinata

LTJD Mine (as Den Obinata)

Sōji Kiyokawa

ENS Maeda

Hyo Kitazawa

K

Ko Yamamuro

M

Mitsuo Tsuda

I

Ichiro Tetsu

ENS Todo

Kan Yanagiya

H

Hideo Nakamura

H

Hachiro Sekiguchi

R

Ryo Sayama

H

Hideo Saeki

SN Oishi

Yoshio Kosugi

Ichirō Tsukida

J

Jun Masaki

I

Isamu Eto

T

Toshio Miki

Z

Zenichiro Kito

Sadao Maruyama

Keiji Sakakida

K

Kinji Fujiwa

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