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  • Genre: Drama
  • Release Date: 12/31/1969
  • Running Time: 0 mins
  • Director: Satoru Mizushima
  • Cast: Kenkichi Hamahata, Jun Fujimaki, Minori Terada, Kuniyasu Atsumi
  • Producer: Satoru Mizushima
  • Writer: Satoru Mizushima
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The Truth of Nanking

Japanese right-winger Satoru Mizushima’s propagandist clunker The Truth of Nanking can’t even get the facts straight about itself. Trumpeted as a debunking of the Axis power’s infamous 1937-38 atrocities, the two-and-half-hour film is actually dominated by a mawkish, stagy re-enactment of the final moments of seven convicted war criminals (Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and friends). Barrages of period footage interrupt at intervals to accompany spurious assertions that hundreds of thousands of civilians were not killed and/or raped after Japan’s invasion of China’s then-nationalist capital. (Sample caption: “Please note peaceful expressions on their faces.”) The film therefore pulls off the nasty double feat of denying horrific events and making the viewer party to a lengthy vigil alongside the high command ultimately responsible, who are respectfully and methodically dramatized reciting prayers and poems before their internationally sanctioned hangings. That is, of course, the point for Japanese nationalists smarting over perceived slights to war dead of any stripe. (On a related front, Li Ying’s recent documentary Yasukuni, about an embattled shrine, provides an antidote to the likes of Truth.) Though part of an announced series concocted to rebut last year’s Nanking, the film’s one-week, single-theater yowl will probably soon be forgotten amidst an assortment of Hollywood projects on the subject currently in development. — Nicolas Rapold

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