Why We Fight World War II - The Complete Series
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DVD Cover Information Primary Contributor: Frank Capra DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Original Language) Format: Black & White, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC Picture Format: 1.33:1 Running Time: 415 minutes DVD Release Date: 2001-05-29 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Studio: Good Times Video |
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Movie Reviews of Why We Fight World War II - The Complete Series
Movie Review: "The Battle of China" is a great propaganda.
Summary: 2 Stars
I was truly shocked by this self-acclaimed ginformation filmh or gdocumentaryh. I donft know about the European theatres of the World War 2, but, as an amateur researcher on wartime history of Japan, I was totally appalled by gThe Battle of Chinah. The filmfs assumption is based on one forged document so-called gTanaka Memorialh in which Japanese Prime Minister Tanaka Giichi allegedly announced Japanfs evil plan for the conquest of the whole world to the Emperor.
The validity of the document was, however, very scant from the first. The allegation was made on only alleged gtranslationsh in English and Chinese. gOriginalh Japanese version of the document was never found. If one says that the original was deliberately lost or hidden, the manner with which the document was written was so horribly wrong and inadequate for the letter that was presented to the Emperor anyway, that one would assume very suspicious. Even the prosecutors of the infamous Tokyo Trial, its entire procedure was hideously unfair and unjust, had to admit that the Tanaka Memorial was fake, after all.
Apart from it, the film is full of inaccuracies and pernicious distortions. The film claims that many Chinese civilians are suffered by the Japanese bombings on Shanghai, for instance. However, according to gthe China Year Book 1938h (edited by prominent China scholar, H.G.W. Woodhead, C.B.E.), it was Chinese planes who bombed international Settlement in Shanghai and killed almost 2000 civilians including foreign nationals in August 1937. The book never mentions wrong-doings in Japanese side. As for the infamous gRape of Nankingh, the book just states in Event Calendar, December 13, 1937; gNanking occupied by Japanese.h
The China Year Book 1938 features the statements on the Sino-Japanese War and the appeal to the League of Nations of General Chiang Kai-shek, the leader of the Chinese Nationalist Party, but he never mentions gmassacreh or whatsoever of Nanking or anywhere else.
I presume many readers know about the famous Life magazine photograph of a baby crying all alone in a Shanghai station that was bombed by Japanese Navy Air Force. But what unknown to many is that, in fact, the baby was deliberately put there to cry one day after the Shanghai South station was bombed. Furthermore, the station was in fact a Chinese Army communication centre, therefore, actually no civilians were there, let alone a wounded, lonely poor baby.
Any way, the photograph in question was originally cut from a newsreel taken by H.S. Wong, a.k.a. gNewsreel Wongh. In this gdocumentaryh, Frank Capra actually included a part of Wongfs staging session for the gcrying babyh. You can see a Chinese man (Wong?) carrying the baby to the gseth platform in the station.
This propaganda film may be looked cunning at the first glance, but, if you watch it with very careful eyes, you can see many odd things going on in it. For example, on the wall of the room in which gJapanese high rank officersh are gconspiringh, there are posters and slogans in Chinese language. And, the soldiers who are executing some Chinese men in civilian clothes are, in fact, the Chinese Nationalist Party Army! And many, many more!
It is so obvious and ridiculous, almost laughable. But it is not funny when you realise that so many people in the world believe this is a genuine gdocumentary filmh.
It is sad fact that there are staggeringly many people who even donft know China and Japan is separate two countries. Not to mention to distinguish between the Chinese and the Japanese. I cannot do it, either. Then, who can tell a naked dead body is the Chinese or the Japanese? The most pathetic fact is that there are so many gscholarsh who accuse Japanese Army of massacring the Chinese civilian being based on pictures or gnewsreelsh of naked dead bodies. Please do not forget that, in China, many Japanese soldiers and civilians were killed and stripped by the Chinese as well. The gmassacredh body you are looking at may have been Japanese.