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The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya

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{{Infobox film

| name = The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya

| image = Hawai Mare oki kaisen poster.jpg

| caption = Theatrical release poster

| director = Kajiro Yamamoto

| producer = Nobuyoshi Morita

| writer = Kajiro Yamamoto

| starring =

| music = Seiichi Suzuki

| cinematography = Akira Mimura

| editing = Fusao Hata

| distributor = Toho

| studio = Toho

| released =

| runtime = 117 minutes

| country = Japan

| language = Japanese
English

| budget =

}}

is a 1942 black-and-white Japanese war film directed by Kajiro Yamamoto, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya.

Production



'Hawai Mare oki kaisen' was the most costly film made in Japan up to that time, costing over $380,000, when a typical film cost no more than $40,000. 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 during the week of the first anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

The special effects are by Eiji Tsuburaya.[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035533/fullcredits#cast IMDB: Cast]. Accessed 19 January 2009

It 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.

Reception



Joseph L. Anderson comments that 'Hawai Mare oki kaisen' 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.

Cast



* Susumu Fujita

* Setsuko Hara

* Fumito Matsuo

* Kunio Mita

* Denjir kchi

* Jiro Takano

* Daihachiro Takebayashi

* Haruo Tanaka

* Frank Tokunaga as Bunroku Tokunaga

* Hiroshi Yamagawa

See also



* 'Storm Over the Pacific', Toho, 1960

References




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