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Know Your Enemy: Japan is an American World War II propaganda film about the war in the Pacific directed by Frank Capra, with additional direction by experimental documentary filmmaker Joris Ivens.
Feb 18, 2023 · Subscribe to get all the latest content https://bit.ly/3AZ4jkQIn this 1945 propaganda film commissioned by the U.S. War Department, the history of Japan is...
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Mar 18, 2017 · Know Your Enemy: Japan is considered to be a masterpiece of documentary filmmaking. The film itself was a compilation of footage obtained from authentic newsreels, captured or confiscated...
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A skillful, essentially truthful WW2 propaganda piece on Imperial Japan that exaggerated some issues by misquotes and by quoting the so-called "Tanaka Memorial" which was a prewar hoax.
Produced by the Princeton Film Center in cooperation with the Institute of Pacific Relations, narrated by Radcliffe Hall and featuring text by Major George Fielding Eliot, "Know Your Enemy Japan!" attempts to answer such vital questions as: How large in the Japanese Empire?
Know Your Enemy - Japan: Directed by Frank Capra, Joris Ivens. With John Beal, Howard Duff, Walter Huston, Knox Manning. A comprehensive look at the war in the Pacific during World War II.
A WWII U.S. War Department orientation film using racist, anti-Japanese propaganda techniques. The film gives a brief history of Japan, and an overview of Japanese social, military, and political culture, with the ultimate goal of explaining that the whole Japanese culture is designed to create soldiers bent on world domination.
