Film

Chocolate and Soldiers

8.0

1h 13m

1938

Synopsis

Chocolate and Soldiers (チョコレートと兵隊, Chokorēto to Heitai) is a 1938 Japanese war film directed by Sato Takeshi and one of the most effective Japanese propaganda films of the late 1930s. The American director Frank Capra said of Chocolate and Soldiers "We can't beat this kind of thing. We make a film like that maybe once in a decade. We haven't got the actors. It shows the common Japanese soldier as an individual and as a family man, presenting even enemy Chinese soldiers as brave individuals. It is considered to be a "humanist" film, paying close attention to the human feelings of both the soldier and his family. Cinema theorist Kate Taylor-Jones suggests that Chocolate and Soldiers provided "a vision of the noble, obedient and honourable Japanese army fighting to defend the emperor and Japan.

Director

Takeshi Sato

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Cast & Crew

Kamatari Fujiwara

Kiyoshi Hosoi

Yuko Ichinose

Masaru Kodaka

Shiro Konishi

Shiro Mizutani

Hideko Takamine

as Shigeko

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