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Know Your Enemy: Japan is a american film of genre War directed by Joris Ivens released in USA on 9 august 1945 with John Beal

Know Your Enemy: Japan (1945)

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Released in USA 9 august 1945
Length 1h3
Directed by ,    
OriginUSA
Genres War,    Documentary,    Historical
Rating59% 2.9995752.9995752.9995752.9995752.999575

Know Your Enemy: Japan is an American propaganda film directed by Frank Capra, commissioned by the U.S. War Department. Completion was delayed by disputes between the Hollywood producers and Washington. The original intention of the film was to prepare U.S. soldiers for war before deployment in the Pacific, though ultimately it never realized this purpose due to the war’s abrupt end soon after its completion.

The film’s first public screening was in 1977 as part of a PBS special.

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Un remarquable documentaire cinématographique sur la montée du militarisme japonais, malgré les outrances inhérentes à tout film de propagande et à la xénophobie ambiante liée à la guerre.

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John Beal

(Narrator)Howard Duff
Walter Huston

(Narrator)Knox Manning

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