Shanghai Landing Party

Overview

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.

Cast

Den Obinata

LTJD Mine (as Den Obinata)

Sōji Kiyokawa

ENS Maeda

Hyo Kitazawa

N/A

Ko Yamamuro

N/A

Mitsuo Tsuda

N/A

Ichiro Tetsu

ENS Todo

Kan Yanagiya

N/A

Hideo Nakamura

N/A

Hachiro Sekiguchi

N/A

Ryo Sayama

N/A

Hideo Saeki

SN Oishi

Yoshio Kosugi