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Design for Death is a 1947 American documentary film that won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. [1] It was based on a shorter U.S. Army training film, Our Job in Japan, that had been produced in 1945–1946 for the soldiers occupying Japan after World War II.
Design for Death: Directed by Richard Fleischer. With Kent Smith, Hans Conried. An Academy Award winner for best documentary, the film opens with a notice that..."Exhibition of confiscated Japanese film material authorized by permission of the Alien Property Custodian in the public interest under License No. LM 979"...and was assembled from ...
He subsequently coproduced Design for Death (1947), an Academy Award-winning documentary about Japanese culture that was intended as insight into that country’s participation in World War II, which had recently ended. Design for Death was assembled from newsreels seized by Allied forces. Read More.
While revealing the steps that Japan took that led to Pearl Harbor, it goes back 700 years to the feudal caste system, a peasant revolt suppressed after the Samurai murdered over 40,000 people, to Admiral Perry forcibly opening Japan to foreign trade, to the perversion of converting the Shinto religion of nature-worship to that of a fanatic ...
Using newsreel and re-enacted footage, this documentary attempts to describe the historical forces that culminated in the Japanese aggression during World War II. The filmmakers contend that a concentration of power in too few hands can lead to war.
Documentary Feature winner “Design for Death” (1947) examines Japanese culture and how it led to Japan’s role in WWII. Cast.
Documentary Feature winner “Design for Death” (1947) examines Japanese culture and how it led to Japan’s role in WWII.
