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Depicting the International Disarmament Conference and the Japanese Navy’s Struggle.
A counterintelligence film about an American spy who conspires to spread infectious bacteria inside a Japanese factory.
A state-sponsored film featuring singers who embodied the joys of rural life.
Houtaro is suddenly transported to a parallel world. Awaiting him is a young man named Houou Kaguya Quartz who summoned him using that world's technology, the Aurora Curtain System. His favorite phrase is "Gorgeous" and he protects the world from the clutches of the evil organization called "Hundred". What's more, the person following Kaguya is a butler named Butler, who looks exactly like Houtaro's friend Ryo Kajiki!
When salary man Jun gets home, he finds his wife bleeding from her mouth and lying on the floor. He is shocked by the scene, but it turns out the blood is just ketchup and she is pretending to be dead. Without telling him why, she pretends to be dead everyday. Jun is dumbfounded by his wife's behavior, but he begins to feel uneasy with her.
"Around the time he made such remarkably ambivalent war films as Mud and Soldiers and Five Scouts, Tasaka directed this 'home front' comedy-drama which is too bizarre to be serious propaganda. [The plot revolves around a public contribution campaign to buy airplanes.] The mayor's aviator son promises to fly over the village in salute, and much of the narrative concerns the preparations for this great event. Tasaka throws in a few songs, some village humor and satire, and tremendous camera mobility, finally wringing every possible effect from his climax." John Gillett, British Film Institute
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