Kon Ichikawa - 1956
With some aggressive deep focus photogrphy, big faces at the front, complex arrays on various levels of soldiers, nearly always still figures, in the background. The forest is made to seem huge, looming and suffocating, as are caves or other paraphenalia.
I have to say I found it a bit talky, long speeches that verged on the sentinemental. It clearly tried to at least get some view of the insanities of Japanese warfare, avoiding any clear charicatures.
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