Suicide Attack

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This film was cobbled together from Japanese newsreels and propaganda films, to boost home-front morale, filmed during World War Two. It shows the early conquests of Japan, beginning with th... Read allThis film was cobbled together from Japanese newsreels and propaganda films, to boost home-front morale, filmed during World War Two. It shows the early conquests of Japan, beginning with the sneak attack and bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 and the declaration of war ... Read allThis film was cobbled together from Japanese newsreels and propaganda films, to boost home-front morale, filmed during World War Two. It shows the early conquests of Japan, beginning with the sneak attack and bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 and the declaration of war against the United States by Tojo. It includes archive footage of the bombings of MAnila a... Read all

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Paul Dubov

Narrator
(voice)

Hideki Tôjô

Tojo
(archive footage)
(as Hideki Tojo)

Masaharu Homma

General Homma
(archive footage)

Jose P. Laurel

President LAurel
(archive footage)

Prince Naruhiko Higeshi-Kuni

Prince Higeshi-Kuni
(archive footage)

Jonathan M. Wainwright

Gneral Jonathan Wainwright
(archive footage)

George J. McMillan

General McMillan
(archive footage)

A.E. Percival

General Percival
(archive footage)
(as Sir Arthur Percival)

Burdette Fitch

General Fitch
(archive footage)

Winfield S. Cunningham

Commander Cunningham
(archive footage)

Torashiro Kawabe

Lieutenant General Kawabe
(archive footage)

Director
- Irving Lerner
Writer
- Louis Pollock
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7/10

WWII told through Japanese cameras point of view

This interesting documentary retells the familiar story of WWII using captured Japanese film. It starts with the preparation for Pearl Harbor, from the carrier decks to the actual bombing, providing some of the only aerial footage that exists of the attack. It continues on to show everything from captured prisoners, to the results of the saturation bombings of Japan and the atomic bomb attack. Quality is variable, some clips are excellent, some are quite degraded. Aerial footage is quite good, while the ground footage seems amateurish at times, even though it is obviously official footage shot by Japanese army photographers. Well worth checking out by any history buff.