Our Enemy: The Japanese

Duration: 0:20:53

Genre: Educational | Propaganda | Training Educational

Creator: U.S. Office of War Information Bureau of Motion Pictures

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Stridently anti-Japanese film that attempts to convey an understanding of Japanese life and philosophy so that the U.S. may more readily defeat its enemy. Depicts the Japanese as "primitive, murderous and fanatical." With many images of 1930s and 1940s Japan, and a portentious and highly negative narration by Joseph C. Grew, former U.S. ambassador to Japan., To defeat the Japanese and to do the job thoroughly, we have got to understand them thoroughly ... This, then, is the enemy: primitive, murderous, and fanatical. This stridently anti-Japanese propaganda film, a training tool for U.S. Navy personnel, attempts to convey an understanding of Japanese life and philosophy so that America may more readily defeat its enemy. The highly negative narration is provided by Joseph C. Grew, former U.S. ambassador to Japan. "Against the madness of Japan nothing less than all our efforts will suffice to bring peace and security in our time."

Complete Record: Stridently anti-Japanese film that attempts to convey an understanding of Japanese life and philosophy so that the U.S. may more readily defeat its enemy. Depicts the Japanese as "primitive, murderous and fanatical." With many images of 1930s and 1940s Japan, and a portentious and highly negative narration by Joseph C. Grew, former U.S. ambassador to Japan., , Stridently anti-Japanese film that attempts to convey an understanding of Japanese life and philosophy so that the U.S. may more readily defeat its enemy. Depicts the Japanese as "primitive, murderous and fanatical." With many images of 1930s and 1940s Japan, and a portentious and highly negative narration by Joseph C. Grew, former U.S. ambassador to Japan. .NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.