New York Times: A Japanese film series curated by Markus Nornes, professor of Asian cinema, offers a rare glimpse of actresses Shirley Yamaguchi and Setsuko Hara in wartime propaganda films.
New York Times: A Japanese film series curated by Markus Nornes, professor of Asian cinema, offers a rare glimpse of actresses Shirley Yamaguchi and Setsuko Hara in wartime propaganda films.
The interest of these films is mostly historical and cultural, and the later ones, especially, reflect the growing hardships the film industry faced as the war turned against Japan.
