Toyo No Gaika / The Victory Song of the Orient R7 of 14

WWII - 1942, Bataan Death March Japanese troops & military equipment move along dusty road, POV. Columns of Filipino & American Prisoners of War march to the rear filling road, across wooden truss bridge. MCUs. Japanese marching w/ rifles & machine guns, tanks intercut w/ POWs. White flags seen. 13:22:34 Relief map w/ Japanese labels marking route of march. 13:22:45 LS across valley to ocean. CU direction sign: Mariveles. Troops thru destroyed trees,, cross bridge into village. Japanese riding horses, POWs tired, walking, standing, resting. MCUs looking dejected. 13:23:42 Japanese title. Japanese & US officers sitting under trees; MCU General Albert Jones & others, Japanese & Allied officers, attend surrender conference. 13:24:26 Surrender flag carried, POV passing long columns of refugees & POWs along roadside. Refugees carrying goods along road & along beach. 13:25:25 POWs getting water, resting along roadside, in field. Woman & baby, refugees fed at Japanese field kitchen (some film deterioration). WW2; Fighting; Battles; Victory; Death March; Philippines;