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Samlind says...

Not really Japanese gun film, but US film made over Japan. This would be the summer of 1945, after Okinawa was finished, and the USAAF (US Army Air Force) would be sending fighter missions over Japan looking for targets of opportunity - whatever looked like it could help resist the coming invasion of Japan. SO trains, boats, ships, planes, just about any vehicle and factories. At this point, the atomic bomb was unknown, and they were preparing an invasion that would cause an estimated 1 million US casualties and 10 million Japanese. SO anything they could destroy now was something they wouldn't have to destroy later. And the Japanese were preparing to use everything they had, including women and children, to repel the attack.

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