Hawai Mare oki kaisen
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Music director Seiichi Suzuki Duration Country Japan | 7/10 IMDb Genre Drama, History, War Screenplay Kajiro Yamamoto Writer Kajiro Yamamoto Language Japanese | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Director Kajiro Yamamoto
Motoyoshi Oda (assistant director) Release date December 3, 1942 Directors Kajiro Yamamoto, Motoyoshi Oda Cast Susumu Fujita , Setsuko Hara , Fumito Matsuo , Kunio Mita Similar movies The Most Beautiful (1944) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hawai Mare oki kaisen (ハワイ・マレー沖海戦), literally: The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya, is a 1942 black-and-white Japanese war film directed by Kajiro Yamamoto and made during the Second World War.
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Hawai Mare oki kaisen was the most costly film made in Japan up to that time, costing over $380,000, at a time when a typical film cost no more than $40,000. It used special effects and miniature models to create realistic battle scenes. These were intercut with genuine newsreel material to create the appearance of a documentary. The film was released on the first anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The film was confiscated by Supreme Command Allied Powers after the war, who mistook it for genuine news footage of the attack, and it was released by Movietone as such. The special effects are by Eiji Tsuburaya.
Joseph L. Anderson comments that the film was "representative of the national-policy films", with the aim of dramatising "the Navy Spirit as culminated at Pearl Harbor"; critics at the time considered it the best film of 1942.
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References
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