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Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Released in Japan on the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Okinawa, OKINAWA: THE AFTERBURN is the first documentary to provide a comprehensive look at the battle and the ensuing 70-year occupation of Okinawa by the United States military..On April 1, 1945, American troops landed on Okinawa, beginning a battle that lasted 12 weeks and claimed the lives of some 240,000 people. The film depicts the Battle through the eyes of Japanese and American soldiers...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
By spring 1945, the United States sought to cut off Japan's supply line to the resource-rich islands of the South Pacific. An invasion of the island of Okinawa would achieve this objective. Codenamed "Operation Iceberg," this bloody battle shattered any remaining prospect of Japanese victory in the war.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Episode Seven “A World Without War" March 1945-September 1945 In spring 1945, although the numbers of dead and wounded have more than doubled since D-Day, the people of Mobile, Sacramento, Waterbury and Luverne understand all too well that there will be more bad news from the battlefield before the war can end. That March, when Americans go to the movies, President Franklin Roosevelt warns them in a newsreel that although the Nazis are on the verge...
Publisher
Film Movement Classics
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
Ono Masahiko is an unlucky gas station attendant who belongs to a losing junior baseball team. When the local yakuza threaten and capture his coach, he and a friend get more than they bargained for when they travel to Okinawa seeking revenge. This is the second feature film from renowned action auteur Takeshi "Beat"Kitano.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
During the bitter fighting for the Japanese island of Okinawa, American sailors confronted a horrifying new peril: Japanese suicide bombers from the sky. Explore both the Japanese justification for this new protocol and the history of this vicious battle tactic and experience the horror of being attacked by human bombs.
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