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12-12-07, 08:26 AM
Battle of Okinawa
Battle of Okinawa
AnimEigo
1971 / Color / 2:35 anamorphic widescreen / 149 min. / Gekido no showashi: Okinawa kessen / Street Date , 2007 /
Starring Keiju Kobayashi, Yuzo Kayama, Tetsuro Tamba, Tatsuya Nakadai, Mayumi Ozora, Katsuhiko Sasaki, Kenji Sahara, Eisei Amamoto, Ryo Ikebe
Cinematography Hiroshi Murai
Production Design Yoshiro Muraki
Special Effects Teruyoshi Nakano
Film Editor Yo****ami Kuroiwa
Original Music Masaru Sato
Written by Ryozo Kasahara, Kaneto Shindo
Produced by Sanezumi Fujimoto, Hiroshi Haryu
Directed by Kihachi Okamoto
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
We culturally isolated Americans are afforded a good look at a big scale Japanese war epic in 1971's Battle of Okinawa, a color and TohoScope account of the doomed defense of the island. Director Kihachi Okamoto's movie is a companion piece to his earlier B&W Japan's Longest Day, which covered the fascinating events surrounding Emperor Hirohito's surrender a few months later in 1945.
Okamoto again concentrates on the facts and refrains from making emotional or political statements. Although the Japanese military is on the defensive, the movie doesn't express outrage against the American onslaught. What it does demonstrate is that the misery and carnage suffered by the defenders turned Okinawa into a veritable Hell. 1
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Ellie
Battle of Okinawa
AnimEigo
1971 / Color / 2:35 anamorphic widescreen / 149 min. / Gekido no showashi: Okinawa kessen / Street Date , 2007 /
Starring Keiju Kobayashi, Yuzo Kayama, Tetsuro Tamba, Tatsuya Nakadai, Mayumi Ozora, Katsuhiko Sasaki, Kenji Sahara, Eisei Amamoto, Ryo Ikebe
Cinematography Hiroshi Murai
Production Design Yoshiro Muraki
Special Effects Teruyoshi Nakano
Film Editor Yo****ami Kuroiwa
Original Music Masaru Sato
Written by Ryozo Kasahara, Kaneto Shindo
Produced by Sanezumi Fujimoto, Hiroshi Haryu
Directed by Kihachi Okamoto
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
We culturally isolated Americans are afforded a good look at a big scale Japanese war epic in 1971's Battle of Okinawa, a color and TohoScope account of the doomed defense of the island. Director Kihachi Okamoto's movie is a companion piece to his earlier B&W Japan's Longest Day, which covered the fascinating events surrounding Emperor Hirohito's surrender a few months later in 1945.
Okamoto again concentrates on the facts and refrains from making emotional or political statements. Although the Japanese military is on the defensive, the movie doesn't express outrage against the American onslaught. What it does demonstrate is that the misery and carnage suffered by the defenders turned Okinawa into a veritable Hell. 1
To continue reading....
www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s2465okin.html
Ellie