Chocolate and Soldiers
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Chocolate and Soldiers (チョコレートと兵隊, Chokorēto to Heitai) is a 1938 Japanese war film directed by Sato Takeshi and one of the most effective Japanese propaganda films of the late 1930s. The American director Frank Capra said of Chocolate and Soldiers "We can't beat this kind of thing. We make a film like that maybe once in a decade. We haven't got the actors. It shows the common Japanese soldier as an individual and as a family man, presenting even enemy Chinese soldiers as brave individuals. It is considered to be a "humanist" film, paying close attention to the human feelings of both the soldier and his family. Cinema theorist Kate Taylor-Jones suggests that Chocolate and Soldiers provided "a vision of the noble, obedient and honourable Japanese army fighting to defend the emperor and Japan.
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Cast
19 people
Kamatari Fujiwara
Known for
Seven Samurai
The Hidden Fortress
Kiyoshi Hosoi
Takeshi Sato
Teppei Himuro
Akiko Ishikawa
Yuko Ichinose
Also in
The Abe Clan
Masaru Kobayashi
Masaru Kodaka
Also in
Composition Class
A Fond Face from the Past
Yûko Ichinose
Okane
Noriko Suzuki
Shiro Konishi
Noboru Kiritachi
Yoshiko Kishi
Takeshi Sato Director · Noriko Suzuki Writer Masaru Kobayashi Story
First release November 30, 1938 · Produced in Japan · Original title チョコレートと兵隊
Production
Toho Eiga
Production
Japan
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Original title
チョコレートと兵隊
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Japan · November 30, 1938
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No release date listed for United States.
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