Know Your Enemy - Japan R2 of 6

Know Your Enemy - Japan (1945) R2 of 6 Reviews Japanese history, and philosophical and religious concepts. Continued... Large bell rung. Pan enormous outdoor crowd before temple or shrine; Emperor Hirohito & Empress wife on stage (1940) during celebration of 2600th anniversary of founding by first God-Emperor. CU lines of people in open as official reading scroll to Emperor & Empress. Sumo wrestler, monks. Street scenes. Crowds bowing. 17:11:24 Large bell rung. Shinto priest, ceremonial chopping. Importance of Shintoism - rituals, blessings, monks, shrines. Tea ceremony. Priest blesses soldier. Emperor; Religious parade. Clouds speeded up. Soldiers to battle. Japanese house, family kneels. Outdoor ceremony. Burning incense. Incense offerings at graves. Religious parade. 17:13:11 Ringing bell w/ log. Montage re Gods. Volcano eruption; lightning; wind. Women pearl divers & ceremony (brief). Farmers on rice fields. Scarecrows as archers blessed w/ people viewing. Shinto shrines. 17:13:54 Gong. Crowds in formal dress of kimonos & suits walking among temples. Montage: eating w/ chopsticks, flower arranging, school children bowing. Greeting w/ much bowing. Offerings. Priests in procession. Loading corpses on truck. Dead US soldiers on beach. Wounded on stretchers. 17:15:07 Animation of God Jimo, Japanese expansion. Text re Hakko Ichiu. Cu Matsuoka 17:16:11 Gong. Montage: military bodies.; gong. Military ceremony of soldiers in Shinto shrine. Yaskuni shrine. Urns w/ ashes of soldiers. Mothers receives ashes from soldier. Ceremonial cigarette lighting. Mutilated Japanese soldiers, corpses. Suicide discussed by narrator Walter Huston. Racist WWII Propaganda; Anti-Japan; Violence; Oddities; Gods; Religion; Ethnic Culture; Military; Militarism; Pres-WWII;