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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.
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- verified Status: Released
- calendar_month Release Date: 1938-11-30
- video_camera_front Companies Toho Eiga Co., Ltd.
- timer Runtime: 73 Mins
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- info IMDB ID tt0263203
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Kamatari Fujiwara
Kiyoshi Hosoi
Yuko Ichinose
Masaru Kodaka
Shiro Konishi
Shiro Mizutani
Hideko Takamine
Shigeko
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Masaru Kobayashi
Story
Noriko Suzuki
Writer
Noboru Itô
Original Music Composer
Takeshi Sato
Director
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