Know Your Enemy: Japan

Feature film · 62 min · dir. Frank Capra

• Documentary
• War
• History

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Synopsis

Know Your Enemy: Japan is an American World War II propaganda film about the war in the Pacific directed by Frank Capra, with additional direction by experimental documentary filmmaker Joris Ivens. The film, which was commissioned by the U.S. War Department, sought to educate American soldiers about Japan, its people, society and history, and its totalitarian militaristic government. However, the film never realized its full purpose because its completion was delayed by disputes between…

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Details

Director

Frank Capra

Writer

Edgar Peterson

Studio

U.S. War Department

Released

1945-08-09

Running time

62 minutes

Cast & crew

• Frank Capra Director
• John Beal
• Howard Duff
• Walter Huston
• Knox Manning

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