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Year: 1939 Country: Japan Director: Fumio Kamei IMBD: Link Language : Japanese Subtitles : English, Italian Fighting Soldiers is an extraordinary film. Despite being a record of the invasion of China, produced in conjunction with the Japanese military, it appears to contain a covert statement pointing to the tragedy of the war. Each scene deploys the conventions of the typical propaganda film, but they are subverted through brilliant editing, well-crafted intertitles, and ambiguous imagery. It seems that the filmmaker's pacifist sentiments were not hidden well enough, for the film was censored before reaching public view and the director was eventually imprisoned. Fighting Soldiers was basically a senki eiga, or "war record film", of the battle for Wuhan. It was one of the first documentaries to be overseen by a directorial presence, which is significant to the extent that the film's subversiveness partly depended upon the prescient collection of images before the editing stage. Previously, cameramen had simply sent their images back to editors in Japan. Through his command of the amalgamation of images and sounds, Kamei undermines the codes of the propaganda film. He builds a double movement into Fighting Soldiers. On the surface, the film is similar to the many militaristic films being made around the same time; the effect, however, is entirely different. A close look at the opening sequence will demonstrate this approach. The film contains no narration, only calligraphic intertitles in the manner of a silent film. The first contains a pronouncement typical of the war film: "Now the continent experiences violent pangs of labour to give birth to a new order." An old man prays before a roadside shrine, a small statue, offering flowers and bowing. We wonder what the man is praying for and the answer seems to come in the next image: a nearby house burning out of control. The screen fills with the old man's rugged face, and the effect is shocking. This is one of the few extreme close-ups in any Japanese war documentary. This old man is not smiling; it appears as though he is looking out at the audience, begging them to look closely and think. The next shot shows a close view of the roadside shrine at which he was praying: the god's hands are brought up to its face as if it is weeping. A line of refugees walk on the dried mud of a road past devastated fields, Japanese soldiers looking on. A column of tanks and trucks pass the refugees. Attached to one tank is a Japanese flag framed by the screen. Its vigorous flapping in the wind may have stirred the fighting spirit in some spectators, but others will have looked behind it at the edges of the frame. There they will have noticed the seemingly endless ruins of Chinese homes passing by From this striking opening sequence, Kamei goes on to offer an encyclopedic rendering of propaganda film conventions, undercutting each one as the soldiers fight toward Wuhan. For example, in the film's most famous scene the soldiers abandon a sick horse, which we see collapsing on a lonely road and dying in an excruciating long take. In another powerful sequence, a group of soldiers sit around a small shrine for a fallen comrade; on the soundtrack we hear a letter from his wife, who is unaware of her husband's death and awaits his return. Here Kamei forcefully demonstrates the subversive potential of melodrama. Elsewhere, he relies on subtle editing, ambiguous imagery, and ironic intertitles. This strategy builds a nebulousness into the fabric of the film, and directs spectators to a reading that resists the acceptance of — or the desire for — sacrificial death and "glorious war results". It appears that the various departments of Toho Studios were operating under varying assumptions regarding Fighting Soldiers. While some were preparing to release the film into the public arena, others were contemplating its suppression. Toho held a number of industry previews, circulated pamphlets, and published impressive advertisements in film magazines. The response at the previews was favourable, but the studio staff sensed that the film would be tripped up by the censors. This was the era immediately preceding the Film Law and they realized that they had to be careful. To prevent the retributions that they imagined lay in wait, Toho unilaterally shelved the film. The executives wrote off the capital investment in the film in the belief that they were ensuring their own survival by doing so. The suppression sent shock waves through the documentary film industry, and “The Fighting Soldiers Problem” became shorthand for the care needed to avoid wartime censorship. The film was thought lost until the 1970s when a print surfaced, with a single scene of a funeral pyre mysteriously missing. 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