Listen to the Voices of the Sea (1950)

Original title

日本戦歿学生の手記 きけ、わだつみの声

Directed by

Hideo Sekigawa

Genre

drama film

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 49m

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This film tells the story of Japanese student soldiers who died in World War II. It uses their actual letters to show the experience of war from their perspective.

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What happens

Listen to the Voices of the Sea (Japanese: 日本戦歿学生の手記　きけ、わだつみの声, romanized: Nippon senbotsu gakusei no shuki: Kike wadatsumi no koe, lit. 'Notes from Fallen Japanese Student Soldiers: Listen to the Voices from the Sea') is a 1950 Japanese anti-war film directed by Hideo Sekigawa. It is based on the 1949 best-selling book Listen to the Voices from the Sea (Kike wadatsumi no koe), a collection of letters by Japanese student soldiers killed in World War II. The first post-war Japanese film to feature battle scenes, it was a big success with domestic cinema audiences. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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