A dramatization depicts Japanese psyche and living habits in World War II. Hierarchy of social strata in Japan. Japanese people and their sense of duty. A Japanese woman and her daughter walk along a road. The woman goes to meet her husband who is captured by the enemy and is in prison. The mother dies while traveling on foot. The daughter cries. She fulfills her duty and goes to meet her father. A man helps her and takes her on horseback to meet her father. A man returns home after six years. His wife and son want to meet him, but his father does not permit them. As the father pretends to sleep the wife comes to meet him. The man declares he is going to participate in the war. A matchmaker or 'go-between' asks a girl some questions before the girl gets married. A father scolds his son. The son is well behaved and does not answer back. Japanese boys attack each other on the street.
A documentary film depicts psychology and living habits of Japanese people. Two Japanese men sit and talk. They sleep on the floor. Geisha girls entertain gatherings of Japanese men. The girls dance and sing and converse to men. Japanese people indulge in recreational activities like sports events, steeplechase and holiday parades. Cherry Blossom festival in Japan. A man in Japan dressed as Santa Claus on Christmas.
Near the end of World War 1, United States naval ship underway in rough seas. A United States flag on the ship. Allied troops on the march, through a town, in the snow. A map of Soviet Russia, highlighting cities of Khabarovsk and Vladivostok. American warship in Vladivostok harbor. A Japanese warship in Vladivostok harbor. Japanese Naval officers pose. Relaxed, smiling, unarmed American soldiers pose, playfully, on the wharf, with two armed Japanese sailors. Contingent of Japanese sailors, with arms stacked, seen with officer, on the wharf. Officials on a British ship in Vladivostok harbor. Several men of the 'White Army' (White Russian Army) in Russia. The White Army executes members of the 'Red Army' proximate to time frame of Russian Civil War following Russian Revolution. Map display highlights cities of Simferopol and Sevastopol. Crowd jams wharf as White Russian soldiers disembark from troop ship (several ambulatory wounded, first). A man offers officers a plate of refreshments. Crowd follows troops marching off the wharf. Map shown highlighting cities of Tbilisi and Baku. Russian communists celebrating.
Battle of Okinawa in Japan, during World War II. U.S. Infantry troops advance on a road lined by trees in the village of Kin in Okinawa. The soldiers, holding guns, move in front of the houses in the village. Women and children seated in front of the houses. Children watch the soldiers in front of a building. A board, with letters written in Japanese. The U.S. soldiers with the villagers. Soldiers inspecting Japanese uniforms. The soldiers searching for Japanese troops in the village. The Japanese troops dressed as villagers being led away by the U.S. troops.
Film opens with exterior view of Nuremberg cell prison, just north of the Palace of Justice, holding war criminals for the Nuremberg Trials. Interior view showing cell bloick area and guards patrol the halls. Cell door with name Karl Doenitz on it. Views of German Admiral Doenitz and Admiral Erich Raeder, looking over war planning charts. Ships burning at sea in nighttime. Glimpse of German U Boat Captain observing through periscope. Back at Nuremberg Prison, an American soldier checks cell of Joachim von Ribbentrop. German Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop seen on steps of an airplane. Scene shifts to Nazi–sponsored so-called American Rally in Madison Square Garden, New York City, on February 20, 1939. A huge picture of George Washington dominates the stage where drummers play while flag-bearing marchers fill the stage. View of audience of 20 thousand persons, rendering Nazi salutes. Someone trying to interfere with the activity is quickly subdued on stage by men in military style uniforms. Scene shifts back to Nuremberg prison, where a soldier guard passes food through cell door to Julius Streicher (unseen). Closeup of Streicher speaking to crowd of people in Germany. Views of German Paramilitary Brown shirts (Storm troopers, or Sturmabteilung) during boycott preventing people from patronizing Jewish merchants. Next, victims liberated from Nazi concentration camp are seen being sprayed in delousing powder by American soldiers. Back at Nuremberg prison, a soldier stands outside the cell of Hermann Goering. Next, Goering is shwon in a scene eating at an outdoor table with other men, at a Nazi-sponsored public feeding event before World War 2. Brief view of German Chancellor, Heinrich Bruening, who fled Germany in 1934 as the Nazis were coming to power. A Graf Zeppelin airship, bearing Nazi Swastika insignia, is seen in flight over New York City. Crew member inside the Zeppelin, looking out a window as he plots a position on a chart. The Zeppelin casts a shadow over an ocean liner at sea, as it passes overhead. Back at Nuremberg cell prison, a guard opens a door with a key. Next seen shows several prisoners walking into a prison yard at an unidentified prison. A firing squad (unseen) is heard marching into position and firing their guns. Scene shifts to Japan, where a Japanese twin engine passenger plane is seen overhead, coming in for a landing. Official buildings are seen in Tokyo and jurists who will participate in war crimes trials. Scene shifts to war crimes trials authorized in Manila, by General Douglas MacArthur. Seen are Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita and another Japanese officer on trial at the High Commissioners Residence in Manila, in 1945. Views of ordinary Japanese soldiers. A court convening.
Activities at Omura Air Field in Nagasaki, Japan after the end of World War 2. Two U.S. Navy fliers converse amicably with a Japanese airmant, as they stand in front of a Stinson L-5 Sentinel airplane, in which the Japanese airman expresses interest. Camera pans to a tent set up nearby, under which several American military and Japanese civilian and military men ae seen. Damaged roof on a building in the background. Camera pans past skeletons of bombed out hangars and other buildings. Airport operations building appears intact. Small prefab quonset-style hangar nearby. Japanese soldier stands near car parked on ramp. Several U.S. Navy airplanes parked in background.
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