Shanghai Landing Party

Shanghai Landing Party

93 mins | Documentary, War | May 19, 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.

Shanghai Landing Party

93 mins | Documentary, War | May 19, 1939

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.

Producers	Toho Film (Eiga) Co. Ltd.
Original title	上海陸戦隊
Directors	Hisatora Kumagai
Writers	Tsutomu Sawamura

Cast

Den Obinata

as LTJD Mine (as Den Obinata)

Sōji Kiyokawa

as ENS Maeda

Hyo Kitazawa

as

Ko Yamamuro

as

Mitsuo Tsuda

as

Ichirô Tetsu

as ENS Todo

Kan Yanagiya

as

Hideo Nakamura

as

Hachiro Sekiguchi

as

Ryo Sayama

as

Hideo Saeki

as SN Oishi

Yoshio Kosugi

as

Ichirō Tsukida

as

Jun Masaki

as

Isamu Eto

as

Toshio Miki

as

Zenichiro Kito

as

Sadao Maruyama

as

Keiji Sakakida

as

Kinji Fujiwa

as

Kenho Nakamura

as

Yuriko Hanabusa

as

Kumeko Otowa

as

Sumie Tsubaki

as Sulian - Chinese woman who bears child

Setsuko Hara

as Mingzhu - Chinese girl