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Oda Nobunaga leads his clan on a campaign to unify Japan, controlling the central territories of Japan, including the Imperial capital of Kyoto. This includes eliminating the strong influence of the Buddha religion, specifically the Ikkō-ikki, a resistance movement based on the Jōdo Shinshū sect of Buddhism. Nobunaga leads his forces to ...
Characteristically, Imamura seeks to investigate an alternative interpretation of recent Japanese history through the eyes of a person living in the lower strata of that society. [4] Beginning with this film, Imamura was to spend the next decade working in the documentary format. He returned to purely fictional narrative with Vengeance is Mine ...
Reframing Japanese Cinema: Authorship, Genre, History. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-34108-2. Nornes, Abé Mark (2003). Japanese Documentary Film: The Meiji Era through Hiroshima. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0-8166-4045-4. Nornes, Abé Mark (2007). Forest of Pressure: Ogawa Shinsuke and Postwar Japanese ...
Prior to the bombing her family immigrated to Japan from Korea to escape starvation. Etsuko Nagano, 16 years old. Nagano lost her brother and sister to the bombing. Senji Yamaguchi, 14 years old. During his lengthy hospitalization Yamaguchi started a survivors' group to petition the Japanese government to provide medical care to victims of the ...
This documentary is about a group of samurai sent by the Japanese government to France at the end of the Edo period. At the time, all the ports of Japan were closed, cutting it off from the rest of the world. The samurai were sent to help solve diplomatic problems between Japan and Europe on December 29, 1863.
Documentary films about Japanese war crimes (12 P) Pages in category "Documentary films about Japan" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total.
The film describes Imperial Japan through a critical lens. Political repression in Japan, the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931, the assassination of the Japanese prime minister Inukai Tsuyoshi by fascists in 1933, the Anti-Comintern Pact between Germany, and Japan, the Second Sino-Japanese war, and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor are discussed in the film.
Frank Capra hired Joris Ivens to supervise the documentary in early 1943, but after Ivens submitted a 20-minute preview, which treated the Japanese as an open-minded people being led by a vilified Emperor Hirohito, Capra told Ivens to leave the project because the U.S. Army had disapproved so much of the approach he had taken towards his ...