Shooting on location in China, Tasaka presents a low-key but stirring account of the day-to-day travails of Japanese soldiers, swapping individual heroics for devotion to the group spirit. –NYFF
Holy cow—the retrospective discovery of 2011 for me. Playing on film and English subtitled in the New York Film Festival, and a must see.
An overview of the 37-film NYFF sidebar, Velvet Bullets and Steel Kisses: Celebrating the Nikkatsu Centennial.
A remarkable discovery in the NYFF’s Nikkatsu retrospective: a 1939 war film shot in China.
