63 years ago:
Storm Over the Pacific (JP)
Original title: ハワイ・ミッドウェイ大海空戦 太平洋の嵐
Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in 1941 and is welcomed with pride in his hometown on his return. As Japan racks up victory after victory in the Pacific War, Kitami is caught up in the e...
1960-04-26
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/144537
#StormOverthePacific #YsukeNatsuki #ToshirMifune #KojiTsuruta

61 years ago:
The Challenge (JP)
Original title: 誇り高き挑戦
Journalist Kuroki is investigating clandestine arms sales to Southeast Asia. He discovers that the point man in an arms trade was also involved in the cover-up of a murder on an American base during the Allied Occupation. The film rolls along as a suspenseful thriller while offering a critique of po...
1962-03-28
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/397043
#TheChallenge #KinjiFukasaku #KojiTsuruta #HitomiNakahara #TetsurTamba #ToeiCompany

Waiting for me on my return after Christmas, contributor copy for Big Time Gambling Boss! Honoured to contribute to one of the first releases from Radiance Films.

#JapaneseFilm #JapaneseCinema #KosakuYamashita #KojiTsuruta #TomisaburoWakayama