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Cannes Film Festival 2009: Maps of the Sounds of Tokyo Interviews
INTERVIEW: Rinko Kikuchi on the director knowing a lot about Japanese culture at the Cannes Film Festival 2009: Maps of the Sounds of Tokyo Interviews at Cannes . (Footage by WireImage Video/GettyImages)
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Japanese Kiddies at Play
Youngsters of the Orient enjoy themselves just as other boys and girls. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the collection are reproduced for...
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Rice Planting in Japan
Priests create a din to banish evil spirits that might ruin crop. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the collection are reproduced for historical...
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Rice Cakes While you Wait
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William & Kate Lay Wreath at Kranji War Memorial
William & Kate Lay Wreath at Kranji War Memorial
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Town of Rikuzentakata one year on from tsunami
Town of Rikuzentakata one year on from tsunami
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HAVOC AND DESOLATION IN JAPAN - PART SOUND
The Atomic Bomb (an experimental one) was dropped in New Mexico. The second was dropped on Hiroshima and this film shows the resulting devastation. Nagasaki was the target for the third bomb three days after that at Hiroshima. The...
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JAP COMMANDERS BROUGHT TO BOOK
In a Manila Court, notorious Jap Commander, General Homma, is tried as a war criminal. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the collection are...
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SURRENDERS - MANILA AND RANGOON
Lieutenant-General Kawabe met the Japanese surrender delegates who landed at Manila. Lieutenant-General Sutherland represented General MacArthur in explaining that arrangements were being made for the signing of the unconditional...
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SWEEPING UP THE DREGS
These pictures of Japanese prisoners in Burma reached London just about the time of Japan's unconditional surrender was being signed aboard the ""Missouri"". Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and...
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CAN DO KENDO?
The Japanese can do it, and the London Judo Society has a number of members learning to do it: Kendo, a ritual form of fencing in which the armour and accoutrements are as much part of the ritual as the actual sport itself. We were very...
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BAN THE BOMB - TOKYO STYLE
Nearly six thousand Japanese took part in this Anti-American demonstration outside a US Air Base near Tokyo. ® Seven hundred riot police were alerted, but there was no real trouble and no sit down. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an...
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VISITORS TO SYDNEY
Sydney Harbour - American sailors lost no time in getting acquainted. The Americans' visit was in connection with Coral Sea week, celebrating that 4 day Naval battle of fifteen years ago between American and Japanese forces. Disclaimer:...
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AIRLIFT BY RCAF
At Tacoma, Washington, a Royal Canadian Air Force Squadron is on air-lift duty for the United Nations. Taking the Northern route to Japan, the aircraft head for Canada and arrive in Japan, with their supplies, by way of Alaska and the...
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WORLD ARCHERY
Top names from 36 countries compete in the World Archery Championships at York. The World Championship went to John Williams - a High School Graduate from America who is just seventeen years old. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an...
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JAPAN'S FINAL FADE OUT
At Okinawa on the eve of the Japanese surrender hundreds of transport planes were waiting to take troops to begin the occupation. General MacArthur landed at Atsugi and later board the 'Missouri' where he was greeted by Admiral Nimitz....
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INDONESIA
President Soekarno of Indonesia was present at one of the last sessions of the Afro-Asian Conference held in Bandung. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or...
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HONG KONG BRITISH AGAIN
The last of the major Japanese surrenders was signed at Hong Kong on the sixteenth of September. Not before some Japanese resistance had been overcome and prisoners rounded up. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection....
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NEWS FROM JAPAN
The atomic bomb exploding at Nagasaki was filmed from a B29. Emperor Hirohito looks at the ruins of Tokyo shortly before the surrender of Japan. In Yokohama Hospital American Sergeant John Archinal gives blood to save the life of former...
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JAP SURRENDER MISSION (FIRST PICTURES)
Film news from the Far East includes the story of the bogus Japanese hospital ship, Tachibaan Maru, captured off Australia. Aboard the American battleship ""Missouri"" Admiral Halsey, Admiral Rawlings and Staff Officers drink a toast to...
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JAPAN GOES TO THE POLL
Disturbances preceded the voting in Japan's recent elections. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the collection are reproduced for historical...