Hawai Mare oki kaisen

Hawai Mare oki kaisen

Japanese movie poster
Directed by Kajiro Yamamoto
Motoyoshi Oda (assistant director)
Produced by Nobuyoshi Morita
Written by Kajiro Yamamoto
Music by Seiichi Suzuki
Cinematography Akira Mimura
Production
company
Release dates
  • December 3, 1942 (1942-12-03)[1]
Running time
 117 minutes
Country Japan
Language Japanese
Japanese movie poster

Hawai Mare oki kaisen (ハワイ・マレー沖海戦), literally: The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya,[2] is a 1942 black-and-white Japanese war film directed by Kajiro Yamamoto and made during the Second World War.

Film

Hawai Mare oki kaisen was the most costly film made in Japan up to that time, costing over $380,000, at a time when a typical film cost no more than $40,000.[3][4] It used special effects and miniature models to create realistic battle scenes. These were intercut with genuine newsreel material to create the appearance of a documentary. The film was released on the first anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The film was confiscated by Supreme Command Allied Powers after the war, who mistook it for genuine news footage of the attack, and it was released by Movietone as such.[3][4] The special effects are by Eiji Tsuburaya.[5]

Joseph L. Anderson comments that the film was "representative of the national-policy films", with the aim of dramatising "the Navy Spirit as culminated at Pearl Harbor"; critics at the time considered it the best film of 1942.[3]

Cast

See also

References

  1. ↑ (Japanese) http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1942/br001160.htm accessed 19 January 2009
  2. ↑ IMDb AKA titles
  3. 1 2 3 Anderson, Joseph L. (1982). The Japanese Film: Art and Industry. Princeton University Press. p. 131. ISBN 0-691-00792-6.
  4. 1 2 McDonald, Jason (2007). "Hawai Mare Oki Kaisen". Retrieved 11 March 2015.
  5. ↑ IMDB: Cast. Accessed 19 January 2009
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