Chocolate and Soldiers
1938, Japanese. Directed by Takeshi Sato.
Chocolate and Soldiers (チョコレートと兵隊, Chokorēto to Heitai) is a 1938 Japanese war film directed by Sato Takeshi and one of the most effective Japanese propaganda films of the late 1930s. The American director Frank Capra said of Chocolate and Soldiers "We can't beat this kind of thing. We make a film like that maybe once in a decade. We haven't got the actors. It shows the common Japanese soldier as an individual and as a family man, presenting even enemy Chinese soldiers as brave individuals. It is considered to be a "humanist" film, paying close attention to the human feelings of both the soldier and his family. Cinema theorist Kate Taylor-Jones suggests that Chocolate and Soldiers provided "a vision of the noble, obedient and honourable Japanese army fighting to defend the emperor and Japan.
- Runtime
- 1h 13m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Japanese
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- Released
- 30 November 1938
- Original title
- チョコレートと兵隊
- Country
- Japan
- Written by
- Masaru Kobayashi, Noriko Suzuki
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Chocolate and Soldiers runs 73 minutes (1h 13m).
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Chocolate and Soldiers isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 30 November 1938. (Checked 12 November 2026.)
What movies are like Chocolate and Soldiers?
If you liked Chocolate and Soldiers, try The One That Got Away, The War Below, Men in War.
Who directed Chocolate and Soldiers?
Chocolate and Soldiers (1938) was directed by Takeshi Sato and stars Kamatari Fujiwara, Kiyoshi Hosoi, Yuko Ichinose.