Shanghai Landing Party

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.

• Release date
• May 19, 1939
• Runtime
• 93 min
• Genres
• Documentary, War
• Director
• Hisatora Kumagai

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