Pacific war documentary culled from approximately 40,000 feet of Nippon Eiga Shinsha wartime stock, as well from British and American sources. Film traces the war from the invasion and occupation of China to the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Japanese defeat. Included if footage of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the capture of Hong Kong, B-29 bombings of Japan, and kamikaze sinking of American warships.
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Hiroshi Okada Director
First release July 29, 1958 · Produced in Japan · Production TOHO
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Nihon Eiga Shinsha
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TOHO
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Japan
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Original title
太平洋戦記
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Japanese
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Japanese
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Japan · July 29, 1958
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