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Tsushima Maru: Sayounara Okinawa (1982)

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A documentary anime tells the true story of a freight boat carrying schoolchildren that was sunk by an American submarine in 1944. The film was made by surviving family members and uses realistic depictions alongside deliberately distorted character designs.

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