

If you are looking for something fun to watch on a Friday night with popcorn, Manchurian Marching Song is absolutely not it. You should probably only watch this if you are a completionist for early Japanese cinema or if you have a weirdly specific interest in how governments used movies to make war look like a big, sad...


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"If you are looking for something fun to watch on a Friday night with popcorn, Manchurian Marching Song is absolutely not it. You should probably only watch this if you are a completionist for early Japanese cinema or if you have a weirdly specific interest in how governments used movies to make war look like a big, sad parade. History buffs will find it interesting for about twenty minutes. Everyone else will probably get bored once the third slow-moving scene of people looking stoic starts. T..."

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