In the Name of the Emperor
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A matter-of-fact documentary of the massacre of over 300,000 Chinese civilians by the Japanese in the so-called 'Rape of Nanjing' in 1937. In the name of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, the desperate soldiers, enraged by intense Chinese resistance, stormed the then capitol of China and over a six week period systematically raped, tortured, and killed many of the inhabitants of that city. This is a matter-of-fact although polemical documentary, with many of the horrifyingly intense images taken from home movies made by an American missionary who was there.
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Edited by Nanette BursteinShot by Christine ChoyScored by Dun Tan
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14 unique people credited
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Robin Brentano
as Narrator
Ted Hannon
as Narrator
Matthew Myers
as Narrator
Lamar Sanders
as Narrator
Sam Schacht
as Narrator
Shiro Azuma
as Self (Imperial Army, Nanking, 1937)
Richard Chu
as Self (Rochester Institute of Technology)
Tillman Durdin
as Self (US reporter, New York Times)
Akira Fujiwara
as Self (Kagawa Nutrition College)
Katsuichi Honda
as Self (Japanese journalist)
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