Tragico oriente

Titolo originale: Behind the Rising Sun

1943
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1h 28min

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Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaIn Japan, foreigners and their Japanese friends are caught up in the rising tide of militarism.In Japan, foreigners and their Japanese friends are caught up in the rising tide of militarism.In Japan, foreigners and their Japanese friends are caught up in the rising tide of militarism.

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Tama Shimamura

Tom Neal

Taro Seki

J. Carrol Naish

Reo Seki

Robert Ryan

Lefty O'Doyle

Gloria Holden

Sara Braden

Donald Douglas

Clancy O'Hara
(as Don Douglas)

George Givot

Boris

Adeline De Walt Reynolds

Grandmother

Leonard Strong

Tama's Father

Philip Ahn

Japanese Officer Murdering Takahashi
(non citato nei titoli originali)

Abner Biberman

Inspector
(non citato nei titoli originali)

Luke Chan

Officer
(non citato nei titoli originali)

Spencer Chan

Japanese Swordsman
(non citato nei titoli originali)

Aen-Ling Chow

Japanese Girl
(non citato nei titoli originali)

Fred Essler

Takahashi
(non citato nei titoli originali)

Benson Fong

Japanese Officer with Message
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Lee Tong Foo

Dinner Guest
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Mei Lee Foo

Geisha Girl
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Regia
- Edward Dmytryk
Sceneggiatura
- Emmet Lavery
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A B-grade exploitation flick produced for $240,000, "Behind the Rising Sun" (1943) did A-level business at the box office, grossing $1.5 million. This was director Edward Dmytryk's second such hit for RKO that year, following the surprise blockbuster "Hitler's Children" (1943). Over the next four years Dmytryk gained the nickname "Mr. RKO" for consistently turning out profitable films for that studio.

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During the bombing of Tokyo, presumably the Doolittle raid, B-17 "Flying Fortresses" ( a heavy bomber) are shown carrying out the attack. The Doolittle raid was carried out by B-25 bombers, a medium bomber, launched from the aircraft carrier, USS Hornet.

Citazioni
Reo Seki: Do you know what this is?
Taro Seki: Of course. It's an air map. Say, it's a swell one too.
Reo Seki: You did some flying while you were in college, did you not?
Taro Seki: Yes, I had a pilot's licence.
Reo Seki: Good. Then you will understand quite easily.
Reo Seki: Observe, my son, when the Earth is spread out flat like the very air itself how there is no place in the world more than 60 hours from any other place, then Japan is no longer a little island at the end of beyond. Japan is the very centre of the universe. For the best airlanes lie to the north: Russia, Europe and North America. And we shall be masters of the north and of the east as well. That is quite inevitable.
Taro Seki: That's taking a lot for granted, isn't it?
Reo Seki: Not when you know your geography. Observe again: this is the heartland. Who holds the heartland, holds the world. For here is one fourth of the Earth's surface and one half of its population. Now take a good look, my son, and ask yourself: who is best fitted to hold the heartland? India, China or Japan? Who, in fact, is best fitted to hold the very world itself?
Taro Seki: But surely, Dad, you don't go for that stuff? Who would want to hold the world, even if he could?
Reo Seki: There was a time, my son, when we used to say: "Asia for the Asiatics". That was before we knew our strength. The white man is not only in the minority here; he is in the minority throughout the entire world. And the time will come when we shall see who is the master and who is the slave. That will be a great hour my son. It will belong to Japan. And Japan alone.
Taro Seki: But this isn't the Japan I've come home to work for.
Reo Seki: It is the only Japan there is. We must all rise with it or all perish with it.

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Featured in Hollywood the Golden Years: The RKO Story: Dark Victory (1987)

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Alma Mater
(ca 1870) (uncredited)
(Cornell University's Marching Song)
Music by H.S. Thompson from his ballad "Annie Lisle" (1857)
Lyrics by Archibald Croswell-Weeks and Wilmot Moses Smith (ca 1870)
Sung by Tom Neal a cappella

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Today (even in 1943) this film is very racist dealing with Japanese son educated in US goes back to Japan and takes part in atrocities there and in China. The whole China sequences are very grisly and actually disturbing, such as nailing the baby to the door by his/her pigtail along with the usual raping and pillaging of the Chinese countryside. They even keep the Chinese drugged up with free heroin handouts from trucks that pull into the villages. There is just one "good" Japanese character in the movie, the female secretary who works for an American architect caught in Japan with some Western reporters when WW2 finally erupts. But then these characters get tortured and sentenced to death. On the whole film it is NEVER boring...never. It has very good production and fine actors (even though Japanese are all played by white Europeans a la Charlie Chan). Now get this! RKO was asked by US government to make a picture that would portray Japanese in a real and fair way instead of the crop of anti-Japanese pictures that were made already so to stave off racial hatred toward this group. It was rampant in US (not so, for Germans though, interestingly films about Nazi's always had numerous "good" Germans, never in propaganda Japanese films who were usually portrayed as sub human hordes.)Anyway this was Hollywood's answer to the problem. Unbelievable! Film though is considered an excellent yet hysterical example of WW2 propaganda at the time.