Know Your Enemy: Japan is an American propaganda film directed by Frank Capra, produced by the U.S. War Department, and released in 1945. The original intention of the film was to prepare U.S. soldiers for war before deployment in the Pacific, though ultimately it never realized this purpose due to the war’s abrupt end soon after its release.
When the U.S. entered WWII, Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall made an official request of director F...
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Know Your Enemy: Japan is an American propaganda film directed by Frank Capra, produced by the U.S. War Department, and released in 1945. The original intention of the film was to prepare U.S. soldiers for war before deployment in the Pacific, though ultimately it never realized this purpose due to the war’s abrupt end soon after its release.
When the U.S. entered WWII, Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall made an official request of director Frank Capra for the production of a series of documentary films to be released to the general public and to be used for the orientation of American soldiers before and during deployment. Commissioned as a major and placed in charge of the 834th Photo Signal Detachment, Capra produced the film series “Why We Fight,” as well as other films, including Two Down, and One to Go and Know Your Enemy: Japan.
Production on Know Your Enemy: Japan began in 1942, and was troubled from the very beginning by the inability of the U.S. government to determine...
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