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The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malay (1942)
aka Hawai Mare oki kaisen
aka Battle of Pearl Harbor and the Malay Coast


Director:Kajiro Yamoto 
Starring: Kaoru Ito, Denjiro Okouchi 
Released: 1942 

A film created during WWII by the Japanese Naval press bureau.  It portrays the success of Pearl Harbor.

Hawai Mare Oki Kaisen (The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya) directed by Kajiro Yamamoto was a big-budget special effects film release to commemorate the first anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The most expensive Japanese movie ever made up until then, full of special effects that had never been seen before. The battle scenes, shot with miniature models, were so realistic, and so skilfully blended with newsreel footage, that some Americans who saw the film after the war thought they were real. The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya was one of the films highlighting Eiji TsuburayaÕs talent in special effects. He went on to make the miniatures for Gojira (Godzilla) in 1954. Special effects footage of the attack on Pearl Harbor from this film was so convincing that Supreme Command Allied Powers (SCAP) confiscated the film and sold the footage to Movietone News Corp. The footage was released as actual Japanese footage of the infamous attack.

Post info:
LanguageJapanese
Subtitles included: None

Sourcedvdrip
Rip SpecsFile Name .........................................: Hawaii to Malay.avi
File Size (in bytes) ............................: 1,413,918,720 bytes
Runtime ............................................: 1:54:55

Video Codec ...................................: XviD ISO MPEG-4
Frame Size ......................................: 640x464 (AR: 1.379)
FPS .................................................: 23.976
Video Bitrate ...................................: 1535 kb/s
Bits per Pixel ...................................: 0.216 bpp
B-VOP, N-VOP, QPel, GMC.............: [b-vop], [], [], []

Audio Codec ...................................: 0x0055 MPEG-1 Layer 3
Sample Rate ...................................: 48000 Hz
Audio Bitrate ...................................: 92 kb/s [2 channel(s)] VBR
No. of audio streams .......................: 1 

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