sksvlad
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This is a Japanese propaganda film http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037227/ commissioned by the Imperial Japanese Army. In a typical Japanese style the movie establishes ties to the past in order to explain the present. The service to the Emperor is reiterated almost continuously (no surprise, Ministry of Army wanted so). The movie's end is the most controversial thing about it, the mother (the ONLY one in the crowd NOT to hold a Japanese flag) walks along her marching-in-formation soldier son to the train station on his way to Manchuria. Japanese war time censors really did not like this part https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_(1944_film), the director Keisuke Kinoshita was forbidden to make movies until the war's end.
This film is very difficult to get (just try buying it), contact me if you are really interested.
This film is very difficult to get (just try buying it), contact me if you are really interested.