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Lorne Greene
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Emperor Hirohito of Japan
Himself (archive footage)
Aisin-Gioro Puyi
Himself (archive footage)
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Written by CinemaSerf on Sun Jul 13 2025
What’s probably most noticeable about this otherwise fairly generic wartime documentary is that though it was commissioned by the Canadian Film Board, it doesn’t really feature very much by way of Canadian military prowess. Indeed, aside from a very brief potted history of the industrialisation of Japan - built, it suggests, on Nazi inspiration and expertise - it focuses more on the US and UK operations in Asia before highlighting the US Navy’s maritime equivalent of the Maginot line stretching south from the Aleutians. Lorne Green provides an enthusiastic and effusive commentary that is often ...
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