Occupied Japan 1945 - 1952: Gender, Class, Race
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Occupied Japan 1945 - 1952: Gender, Class, Race

Propaganda Film Shina no Yura (China Night)

Ri Kō-ran (Yamaguchi Yochiko) and Hasegawa Kazuo in Shina no Yoru. This famous 1940 film had three different endings, depending on the country in which it was shown.
From: Yoshikuni, Igarashi. Bodies of Memory: Narratives of War in Postwar Japanese Culture, 1945-1970. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000; 38.

 

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