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These are films set during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines (1942-1945) in World War II, including those based on fact and fiction. Pages in category "Japanese occupation of the Philippines films"
Ano hata o ute korehidōru no saigo (あの旗を撃て コレヒドールの最後) (Filipino: Liwayway ng Kalayaan) also known as Dawn of Freedom, [3] and Shoot That Flag: The End of Corregidor [4] is a 1943 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Yutaka Abe and Gerardo de León.
Manila during the Japanese occupation. The Japanese occupation of the Philippines (Filipino: Pananakop ng mga Hapones sa Pilipinas; Japanese: 日本のフィリピン占領, romanized: Nihon no Firipin Senryō) occurred between 1941 and 1944, when the Japanese Empire occupied the Commonwealth of the Philippines during World War II.
Japanese war crimes in the Philippines (2 C, 17 P) Pages in category "Japanese occupation of the Philippines" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
The Battle of Corregidor (Filipino: Labanan sa Corregidor; Japanese: コレヒドールの戦い), fought on 5–6 May 1942, was the culmination of the Japanese campaign for the conquest of the Commonwealth of the Philippines during World War II.
The Philippines campaign (Filipino: Kampanya sa Pilipinas, Spanish: Campaña en las Filipinas del Ejercito Japonés, Japanese: フィリピンの戦い, romanized: Firipin no Tatakai), also known as the Battle of the Philippines (Filipino: Labanan sa Pilipinas) or the Fall of the Philippines, was the invasion of the American territory of the Philippines by the Empire of Japan and the defense ...
The Japanese had begun the deadly practice as a desperate measure during the final stages of the Battle of Leyte and widened its use by December 1944. In early December, USAAF and USN airplanes attacked Japanese air bases to destroy potential kamikazes before they could attack. U.S. aviators claimed more than 700 planes destroyed on the ground.
The other Japanese-produced feature film shot in the Philippines was Tatlong Maria (1944). [23] At the same time, the comedy duo Pugo and Togo, popular for satirizing Japanese occupation in the Philippines, [24] was renamed to Tuguing and Puguing because of Togo name's closeness to Tojo, the name of the Prime Minister of Japan during