Explosion!

Name: Explosion!
Genre: Drama
Released: 1939-02-15
Duration: 84 min
Rating: 6.5
Cast: Ryo Akaboshi, Noboru Asahi, Yûji Azuma, Donguriboya, Masako Fujimura

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1939 1 h 24 min

Drama

65%

Audience score2 votes on TMDB

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"Around the time he made such remarkably ambivalent war films as Mud and Soldiers and Five Scouts, Tasaka directed this 'home front' comedy-drama which is too bizarre to be serious propaganda. [The plot revolves around a public contribution campaign to buy airplanes.] The mayor's aviator son promises to fly over the village in salute, and much of the narrative concerns the preparations for this great event. Tasaka throws in a few songs, some village humor and satire, and tremendous camera mobility, finally wringing every possible effect from his climax." John Gillett, British Film Institute

Screenplay: Shozo Ito
Director: Tomotaka Tasaka
Status: Released
Release date: 15/02/1939
Original language: Japanese