The film, an Academy Award-winning documentary, showcases a collection of captured Japanese newsreels, historical dramas, and propaganda films. It explores Japan's path to Pearl Harbor, tracing back 700 years to the feudal caste system, a peasant revolt, and the forced opening of Japan to foreign trade. The documentary also examines the distortion of the Shinto religion, which became a fanatical state creed promoting the idea of a Japanese "Master Race" and the Emperor as a sun-god.
Design for Death
Academy Award-winning documentary showcases previously confiscated Japanese film footage, authorized by the Alien Property Custodian under License No. LM.
