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Banzai (1918)

Banzai poster
Genre
silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
10 min
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
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How it feels

A silent short film from 1918 starring Sessue Hayakawa. It was made to encourage Americans to buy Liberty Bonds during World War One.

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What happens

Banzai is a 1918 American silent short propaganda film starring Sessue Hayakawa and produced by his Haworth Pictures Corporation. The film was produced as an effort to support the fourth U.S. Liberty Bond drive, where many film stars were enlisted to create propaganda films. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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