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My Japan (1945)

My Japan poster
Genre
propaganda film
Country
United States
Runtime
16 min
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This short film is a propaganda piece from 1945 meant to encourage Americans to buy war bonds. It pretends to be a travelogue about Japan with a narrator speaking in a fake Japanese accent.

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What happens

My Japan is a 1945 American anti-Japanese propaganda short film produced to spur sale of American war bonds. The film takes the form of a mock travelogue of Japan, presented by an impersonated Japanese narrator. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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