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  • Director: Jack Hively
  • AMG Rating: starstarstarstar
  • Genre: History
  • Movie Type: Military & War
  • Release Year: 1945
  • Country: US
  • Run Time: 56 minutes

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This inspiring 54-minute WWII documentary covers the entire American Pacific campaign from the Bataan retreat to the surrender of Japan. Many of the film's more unforgettable scenes, notably the rape of Manila, have been culled from captured Japanese newsreels. The "star" of the proceedings is General Douglas MacArthur, who after three years of relentless fighting makes good his promise "I shall return." Only occasionally does the film falter by lapsing into phony sentimentality. Appointment in Tokyo was assembled by the Army Pictorial Service of the US Signal Corps, and released domestically by Warner Bros. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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Jack Hively - Director

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The Battle of China; Guadalcanal Diary; Heroes of Iwo Jima
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Appointment in Tokyo
Directed by Jack Hively
Produced by Office of War Information
Release date(s) 1945
Running time 56 min
Country United States U.S.A.
Language English

Appointment in Tokyo is a 1945 propaganda film released shortly after the surrender of Japan. It mainly follows General MacArthur and his men from their exile from the Philippines in early 1942, through the signing of the instrument of surrender on the USS Missouri on September 1, 1945.

The film is notable for its discussion of the problems MacArthur face in Australia after the conquest of the Philippines, the American militaries "hit'em where they ain't" strategy through the Solomons and Papua New Guinea, and especially the footage from the reconquest of the Philippines, including of Battle of Leyte, the Battle of Manila, and the rescue of American and Filipino POWs from Japanese prison camps.

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