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 MOTION PICTURES

1. The following phonographe summarize Japanese newsreel coverage, under guidance of CIE, through the three major newsreel communies enjoing national distribution:


 * a. Nippon Motion Picture Company: 61 newsreel sequences of the Tokyo trials, three of the Yokohama trials, and three documentaries entitled: "The First Week of the Tokyo Trials", "Under the Flag of Peace", and "Pearl Harbor Attack".


 * b. Shinseiki Motion Picture Company: 58 sequences convering the Tokyo trials and one covering the Yokohama trials.


 * c. Riken Motion Picture Company: 15 sequences convering the Tokyo trials.

2. CIS has ?????? constantly to stimulate the production of feature pictures built around the war guilt theme. Many pictures have ? on the theme, but four outstanding films, produced in 1946 and 1947, have been principally concerned with it. They have played to a total audience conservatively estimated at 15,000,000. These films are:


 * a. As Long as I Live, produced by Toho, released 1 August 1946 to an estimated audience of 2,000,000. Story: A drama portraying oppression by the secret police of a man who opposed the war by "going underground".


 * b. What Did the Parrot Sea ?, Produced by Shochiku, released 5 August 1946 to an estimated audience of 3,500,000. Story: The tyranny of the Japanese Army as told through the biography of the demobilised soldier.


 * c. Touth Regrets Not, produced by Toho, released 29 October 1946 to an estimated audience of 4,000,000. Story: The life of a Kyoto Imperial University professor and a student who engages in underground activity against the militarists. This picture was selected as the best in the Japanese 1946 "Motion Picture Concours", which corresponds with the National Motion Picture Academy and its "Oscar" awards in the United States.


 * d. War and Peace, produced by Toho, released 22 July 1947 to an estimated audience of 5,500,000. Story: A fanily tragedy brought on by the war. Women into the plot is the theme of renunciation of war and the placing of war guilt. This film was initiated by the Constitution Polarization Society of ??? the renunciation of war and was selected as the best picture in the Japanese 1947 "Motion Picture Concours".