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Design for Death

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Original title: Design for Death
Year: 1947
Running time: 48 min.
Country: United States
Director: Richard Fleischer
Screenwriter: Dr. Seuss, Helen Palmer
Cast: Documentary
Music: Paul Sawtell
Producer: RKO Radio Pictures
Genre: Documentary. War | Pearl Harbor. Politics. Half-length Film. Propaganda
Synopsis: An Academy Award winner for best documentary, the film is revealing the steps that Japan took that led to Pearl Harbor, it goes back 700 years to the feudal caste system, a peasant revolt suppressed after the Samurai murdered over 40,000 people, to Admiral Perry forcibly opening Japan to foreign trade, to the perversion of converting the Shinto religion of nature-worship to that of a fanatic state creed that preached the Japanese were a Master Race and the Emperor was a sun-god to be blindly obeyed.

Awards: 1947: Oscar: Best Documentary

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Design for Death

1947

Richard Fleischer