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Port Arthur

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Port Arthur	comment	A 1980 film directed by Toshio Masuda with special effects by Teruyoshi Nakano dealing with the battle for Hill 203 in the Russo-Japanese War. Starred Tatsuya Nakadai as General Nogi and Toshiro Mifune as Emperor Meiji.Had two sequels of a sort, "Battle Of The Japan Sea: Umi Yukaba" and "The Imperial Japanese Empire", the latter dealing with the Second Sino-Japanese War.The hill was eventually captured at stupendous loss of life on both the Japanese and Russian sides. The capture of the hill enabled the Japanese army to put pressure on the Russian pacific fleet, thus securing the Japanese victory together with Admiral Togo's "lucky" win in the coming naval battle.
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Port Arthur / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Port Arthur / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Tetsuro Tamba and Tatsuya Nakadai as Red Oni, Blue Oni generals? Seen that before!
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Port Arthur / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
Port Arthur / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Lieutenant Koga is a kind elementary school teacher and pacifist who admires Russia and Russian culture before being drafted. Months of grueling combat and siege conditions turn him into a cynical Shell-Shocked Veteran and it culminates in him snapping and attempting to murder a captured Russian officer who taunts him during an interrogation referring to the Japanese as an 'oriental monkey kingdom'.
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Port Arthur / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Port Arthur / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: While the Japanese succeed in taking Port Arthur and winning the war, Lieutenant Koga dies in a brutal hand-to-hand fight with a Russian soldier during a final assault after watching most of the men in his company die over the course of the siege. The film ends with General Nogi weeping over the death of so many of his men (including his sons) in front of the Imperial court and Koga's widow mourning his death.
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Port Arthur / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Port Arthur / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: The disfigured soldier who has his face and hands burnt to a crisp who walks up to Lieutenant Koga and delivers a speech is certainly this.
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Port Arthur / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
Port Arthur / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: Tetsuro Tamba as Hideki Tojo in the second film.
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Port Arthur / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
Port Arthur / int_8ae880f7	comment	Deconstruction: All 3 films deconstruct the rather patriotic tone of earlier Japanese war films, with many of the tropes seen in those films being ripped apart. The kind young cadet who seems to be The Woobie? He's hiding aggression and tension of all kinds. The stoic, wise officer? Weary from years of war and just as likely to snap under pressure. Patriotic Fervor? Hides a system of corruption, The Neidermeyer, and abuse. And both sides are seen as human.
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Port Arthur / int_94e7d8f	type	Shoot Him, He Has a Wallet!
Port Arthur / int_94e7d8f	comment	Shoot Him, He Has a Wallet!: An impromptu truce with some Russian machinegunners where alcohol and banter is being exchanged at a distance is broken when one of the jumpier Japanese soldiers mistakes one of the Russians passing down a can of food for a grenade and shoots him, leading to tragic results as the other machinegunners then man their weapons and fire at the Japanese.
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Port Arthur / int_a3eae597	type	Award-Bait Song
Port Arthur / int_a3eae597	comment	Award-Bait Song: "Sakimori No Uta" by Masashi Sada; played twice in the film, once after the Sedgwick Speech by the faceless soldier, with a full choir treatment for that rendition, and the record version played during the credits.
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Port Arthur / int_a8a4b41e	type	Not So Stoic
Port Arthur / int_a8a4b41e	comment	Not So Stoic: General Nogi is the model of Dissonant Serenity throughout, even barely managing to keep it together when told his sons have died in combat. He finally breaks down in anguish at the end of the film while delivering an address to the Emperor, haunted by the tens of thousands of soldiers he sent to die at Port Arthur.
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Port Arthur / int_b9f472b	type	Storming the Castle
Port Arthur / int_b9f472b	comment	Storming the Castle: The Japanese are on a strict timetable to take Port Arthur and eliminate the Russian Pacific Fleet before it can link up with the Baltic Fleet sailing across the world to relieve them. Unfortunately for the Japanese, Port Arthur is one of the most heavily-defended strategic positions in the world during this time period and the Japanese attempts to take it result in Verdun-levels of carnage.
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Port Arthur / int_e542d889	type	Gorn
Port Arthur / int_e542d889	comment	Gorn: A war film with effects by Teruyoshi Nakano, a man obsessed practically with natural phenomena like blood, fire, and water. So naturally, the battle scenes play out like this.
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Port Arthur / int_f1d6144a	type	War Is Hell
Port Arthur / int_f1d6144a	comment	War Is Hell: In spades. Lieutenant Koga delivers an angry speech to General Nogi over how war turns men into demons.
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Port Arthur / int_ff070bbd	type	Attack! Attack! Attack!
Port Arthur / int_ff070bbd	comment	Attack! Attack! Attack!: The Japanese make repeated frontal assaults on well-entrenched Russian positions at Port Arthur, most of which end in total failure with entire units wiped out.
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