This film attempts to reconstruct the tension of the Battle of Shanghai through an episode in an understated way, introducting its story in a documentary mode. In the film story, Japan's marine regiment protects Japanese residents and Chinese refugees-women and young children-from rampant street fighting, Shanhai Rikusentai unsparingly uses its first eight minutes for an official-mannered self-justification of the war. From the viewpoint of explaining Japan's military operation,the narration refers to the city s spatial division in sync with maps on screen.
Cast
Den Obinata
LTJD Mine (as Den Obinata)
Sōji Kiyokawa
ENS Maeda
Hyo Kitazawa
Unknown
Ko Yamamuro
Unknown
Mitsuo Tsuda
Unknown
Ichiro Tetsu
ENS Todo
Kan Yanagiya
Unknown
Hideo Nakamura
Unknown
Hachiro Sekiguchi
Unknown
Ryo Sayama
Unknown
Hideo Saeki
SN Oishi
Yoshio Kosugi
Unknown
Ichirō Tsukida
Unknown
Jun Masaki
Unknown
Isamu Eto
Unknown
Toshio Miki
Unknown
Zenichiro Kito
Unknown
Sadao Maruyama
Unknown
Keiji Sakakida
Unknown
Kinji Fujiwa
Unknown
Kenho Nakamura
Unknown
Yuriko Hanabusa
Unknown
Kumeko Otowa
Unknown
Sumie Tsubaki
Sulian - Chinese woman who bears child
Setsuko Hara
Mingzhu - Chinese girl
