Chocolate and Soldiers

Chocolate and Soldiers チョコレートと兵隊 Chokorēto to Heitai is a 1938 Japanese war film directed by Sato Takeshi and one of the most effective Japanese propaganda films of the late 1930s The American director Frank Capra said of Chocolate and Soldiers We cant beat this kind of thing We make a film like that maybe once in a decade We havent got the actors It shows the common Japanese soldier as an individual and as a family man presenting even enemy Chinese soldiers as brave individuals It is considered to be a humanist film paying close attention to the human feelings of both the soldier and his family Cinema theorist Kate TaylorJones suggests that Chocolate and Soldiers provided a vision of the noble obedient and honourable Japanese army fighting to defend the emperor and Japan