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100    Capra, Frank, |edirector.
245    Why We Fight: Know Your Enemy
300    DVD-ROM (64 min.)
337    Moving image
500    Poor image
500    Duration: 01:04:00
520    Originally made in 1945 as part of the acclaimed Frank Capra series "Why we Fight!", "Know Your Enemy - Japan" was desgined to fully inform the American soldier of the characteristics of his foe, the Japanese soldier. The movie opens with a characteristic statement that aptly captures its propagandistic spirit. The director  explains that the focus of the fillm are not Americans of Japanese descent, or those Japanese fighting in Europe on the side of the Allies, "who however close they resemble our enemies in appearance have proved their right to American citizenship on the battelfields", but the "Japs of Japan to whom the words liberty and freedom are still without meaning."  Extensively using Japanese feature films, newsreels and filmfootage,  Capra presents a sweeping history of the Japanese people and their culture, from Shintoism, to social structure, to emperial family and martial arts. In an explicit juxtaposition with the enlightened  and progressive American audience, the Japanese come across as backward, militarist, and infinitely remote from the "liberal and democratic  values." "Know Your Enemy" is perhaps, one of the most blatantly propagandistic film of the Capra series, its documentary value obfuscated by the political agenda it puts forward; yet it is definitely an interesting example of the genre.
542     |fCopyright by Pickwick Group Limited
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260    United States : |bElstree Hill Entertainment, |c1945.
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