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Fate in the Streets of Tokyo is a captivating urban drama set against the neon-lit streets of Japan’s vibrant capital. As strangers cross paths in the bustling city, chance encounters slowly reveal how fate can change lives in unexpected ways.
Blending romance, drama, and city atmosphere, this film captures the quiet emotions, fleeting moments, and unseen connections that unfold in Tokyo’s streets.
Perfect for fans of classic cinema, urban romance, and character-driven storytelling.
Blending romance, drama, and city atmosphere, this film captures the quiet emotions, fleeting moments, and unseen connections that unfold in Tokyo’s streets.
Perfect for fans of classic cinema, urban romance, and character-driven storytelling.
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00:00February 1942, Japanese objective.
00:30A president's order to leave.
00:56A soldier's promise to return.
01:00A soldier's hope.
01:02An appointment in Tokyo.
01:04May 5th, 1942.
01:34The enemy lands on Corregidor.
01:40General Jonathan Wainwright, defender of the rock.
01:43Skinny Wainwright's pen wrote deep into the American memory.
01:54From Marravenas on Bataan.
02:15The death march.
02:18The Japs moved on.
02:37Until Australia itself lay open to invasion.
02:55At his Melbourne headquarters, General MacArthur faced grim facts.
03:01Against nearly 3,000 Jap planes, he had barely 500.
03:06Against Jap millions, he had 11 poorly equipped divisions.
03:11Australians, Australians, Americans.
03:14Against him were thousands of miles of Jap-infested islands and Jap-controlled seas.
03:23Against him was time and space and power and preparation.
03:28Against him was an area that made the vast United States seem small.
03:34American industry and labor were converting from the non-essentials of peace to the necessities of war.
03:41Conversion was slow.
03:52Conversion was slow.
03:53And the European theater had first call.
03:56There was little to spare for the Pacific.
03:58Little to travel 10,000 miles from factory to foxhole.
04:04The longest supply line in the world, a supply line won and secured by naval victory in the Coral Sea, land victories at Guadalcanal in the Solomons.
04:34But the Japs were still on the move.
04:48March 2nd, 1943.
04:52A strong enemy convoy was crawling through the Bismarck Sea.
04:57General Kenney's 5th Air Force struck with every plane he could get off the ground.
05:04The Japs had also hit the ship in their incredible sights.
05:12Long time.
05:13Long time.
05:14Long time.
05:15Long time.
05:16, Long time.
05:18Long time.
05:19Long time.
05:21Score?
05:22Twenty-two shattered hulks.
05:25Every enemy ship.
05:27And the decisive aerial victory had been gained in a critical hour.
05:31The Jap had been stopped.
05:34This was the turning point.
05:36The job of fighting back to the Philippines and beyond to Japan
05:40required the closest teamwork of sea, land, and air forces.
05:45This brought together Douglas MacArthur and Chester Nimitz.
05:49Washington had a plan, two roads back to the Philippines,
05:53one from Hawaii along the string of coral fortresses,
05:56the Gilberts, Marshalls, Marianas, to Palau.
06:01This was the job for naval and army forces under Admiral Nimitz.
06:04Another, from Australia, would cut through the jungle of New Guinea,
06:09up the stairway of islands to Moratai.
06:12This was the job for the army and navy forces under the soldier
06:15who had made a promise to return.
06:30First, the air arm reached ahead.
06:54Second, amphibious assault.
06:57Hit them where they ain't.
06:58Up from Australia and across jungle-clad New Guinea,
07:11we learned amphibious warfare and used the sea lanes for surprise
07:16until we had cut off Jap-packed Rabaul and stood on the Admiralty's.
07:20By now, the Japs were dug in and ready at WIWAC.
07:28So we surprised Hollandia.
07:31WIWAC bypassed.
07:43Strategy.
07:45Surprise.
07:46Up the stairway of islands.
07:47Moratai.
07:57Moratai.
07:58The GIs of the Southwest Pacific were dug in and ready for the main event.
08:03To get here, they had left a lot of Japs behind them.
08:08Box score?
08:08152,000 dead.
08:12160,000 bypassed.
08:16This total of 312,000 Japs
08:19had cost us 13,000 dog tags
08:23nailed to white crosses.
08:25Meantime, the forces commanded by Admiral Nimitz in Hawaii
08:43faced a different kind of war.
08:45There were no places to hit them where they ain't.
08:48Every coral atoll we invaded
08:50would have to be taken Jap by Jap.
08:53The GIs of the Office of Celestea.
08:57The GIs of the West of ahora
08:58is the most artistizedavilions.
08:59The GIs of the West of there
09:01have so far
09:01the way they are
09:02to have the group
09:02to be taken
09:02to have caught
09:03in a long line.
09:04They were a Hawk
09:05for those who are
09:06a black and trained
09:07after the other.
09:07Many of the Woo Bolts
09:08have so far
09:09who died of
09:09and was
09:10even
09:11a vulnerable
09:12our
09:13as
09:14held
09:15along
09:15both
09:16in
09:17together
09:17and
09:18Westward through the Central Pacific.
09:27New names in American history.
09:31Tarawa in the Gilberts.
09:34Quadulane in the Marshalls.
09:37Saipan and Guam in the Marianas.
09:44Palau.
09:45Palau and Moratai.
09:51We had bridged the Pacific.
10:15In early October 1944, a combat-loaded convoy from Pearl Harbor was on its way to strike the enemy stronghold at Yap.
10:22One afternoon, a top-secret code message broke radio silence.
10:30For three years, our expanding Navy and Air Forces had prowled the Pacific, cutting Yap supply lines, smashing airstrips, blasting garrisons, until Yap losses made possible a big change of plans.
10:45From Admiral Nimitz.
10:55Instructions to change course.
10:57Yap invasion canceled.
10:59Rendezvous with task forces headed for a new objective.
11:03The Philippines.
11:03Now, guess this.
11:10These are the Philippines.
11:12Up at the top is Luzon, the most important island.
11:17Manila.
11:18Oregidor.
11:20The Japs are expecting us here.
11:22Down at the bottom is Mindanao, another place the Japs are expecting us.
11:27Got it?
11:28Okay.
11:31So we don't hit Luzon.
11:33We don't hit Mindanao.
11:35We hit here.
11:37Right in the middle.
11:39At Lacy's.
11:40Now remember, don't get callous.
11:44They're the same kind of Japs they've always been.
11:47Any questions?
11:49Questions?
11:51Sure.
11:52The silent kind.
11:58Yes, there are always questions.
12:09And the Lord said,
12:11I have surely seen the affliction of my people.
12:15And I have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters.
12:19And I am come down to deliver them out of that land unto a good land.
12:25An army is a collection of men.
12:30And a man is a collection of needs.
12:33One of these needs is prayer.
12:36And prayer is a form of remembering.
12:39Remember.
12:41Yeah.
12:43Back in those canvas hotels in the staging area.
12:47Where two can live as cheap as 2,000.
12:50Yeah, I remember.
12:51I remember Joe getting all polished up to go nowhere.
12:58What a character.
13:02Funny how the unimportant things were important.
13:06Like the first beer you had in nine months.
13:10Like Tex in his accordion.
13:12And you remember packing.
13:20Cutting down to just what you need.
13:21Because what you take, you take on your back.
13:26And you remember the things you left behind.
13:29All the things you wanted to say and couldn't.
13:38And all the things you wanted to take and couldn't.
13:42Meet the western sky
13:48On the lone prairie
13:53On the lone prairie
14:23I remember watching the submarine net slip by
14:25Thinking
14:26Well, this is it.
14:28I'm on my way.
14:35We were all underway.
14:37And there wasn't much to do about it.
14:39Just sit around
14:41And wait for the Navy to take us to the Japs.
14:43Funny how you remember all those things
15:01At a time like this.
15:02The Japs
15:10October 20th, 1944.
15:37The men of MacArthur have returned.
16:07The assault waves.
16:14The untried.
16:22The veteran.
16:29The eager.
16:31The superstitious.
16:37The first to land.
16:46Some the first to fall.
16:52Captured Jap film.
16:59The enemy waits.
17:01General Yamashita commanding.
17:03The enemy waits.
17:10The enemy waits.
17:15The enemy waits.
17:20The enemy waits.
17:25The enemy waits.
17:50Come on.
18:20Come on.
18:50Come on.
19:20Come on.
19:50Come on.
20:20Come on.
20:50To do this, he siphoned troops from garrisons of all neighboring islands.
21:01More captured film.
21:03Bandy-legged NIP infantrymen like these poured into late aid.
21:07We answered the challenge with a meat grinder offensive against reinforced jet positions.
21:15While the G.I.s pressed forward, grabbing ground, suddenly a new threat developed.
21:34The jet fleet appeared, heading directly for both entrances to Lady Gulf, moving to blast loose our toehold in the Philippines.
21:42There wasn't much ground troops could do about this threat from the rear.
21:51This was a job for the Navy.
21:52The first engagement was fought at night.
22:01The first engagement was fought at night.
22:03On shore, everybody sweated it out.
22:12On shore, everybody sweated it out, from G.I. to general.
22:26Our heaviest artillery was turned around toward the sea.
22:34They looked big.
22:35But against naval broadsides, they'd be like pistols against rifles.
22:40Next, our jeep carriers put the sting of death in the air east of Lady Gulf.
22:51Jap land-based fighters and bombers reinforced their sea strength.
23:10Some of our flat tops, swallowed by flames, their planes still aloft, running out of gas.
23:34Ladies' captured strips were still unfinished, wet, but not as wet as the ocean.
23:55Meantime, east of Luzon, the third engagement.
24:04Floating wreckage and floating japs.
24:25We had won a naval battle.
24:35Battle won, beachhead secure.
24:44But to the infantry, it was just another day to keep pushing.
24:50The speed and dash of the first days are gone.
24:54You're not front-page headlines anymore.
24:58And being dry is something you've forgotten.
25:02You march in mud.
25:04You eat in mud.
25:18You rest in mud.
25:23You sleep in mud.
25:26And as long as men remember war,
25:39they'll remember mud.
25:41When you're hit, guys take care of you.
25:57You're kept alive, if it's possible.
26:00This is the battle behind battle.
26:05Courage and medicine are the weapons.
26:08Sometimes, they're not enough.
26:11This is a cathedral.
26:27A large church in a large church in a small town.
26:32But this is only one church of one town, of one island.
26:38And there are thousands of islands where people like these are waiting.
26:42And on these other islands, life under the Japanese is hard.
26:53We knew what Jap domination meant.
26:57Guerrillas had kept us informed.
26:58Their schools were closed.
27:21And their altars destroyed.
27:23Their freedom gone.
27:27Their harvest stolen.
27:39Death rate.
27:41American prisoners.
27:43Billibid increasing.
27:44American prisoners.
27:48Outside, graves for the dead.
27:52Inside, graves for the living.
27:55All of these people,
27:58Filipino and American,
28:01were waiting.
28:04General George Kenney's Far East Air Force
28:06was delivering bombs to Jap targets on Luzon.
28:09Anything worth hitting was hit.
28:14Manila Bay.
28:31Luzon.
28:33The core of Jap power in the Philippines.
28:40January 4th.
28:41The largest convoy in the history of the Pacific.
29:15January 9th, 1945.
29:18This is Lingayan Gulf, Luzon.
29:21Four divisions landing abreast.
29:27We had expected a very different kind of greeting than these cheering Filipinos,
29:32who told us the Japs had pulled back two days before.
29:45These are guerrillas.
29:49Don't let the clothes fool you.
29:51Men like these kept the war going in the Philippines long after the Japs said it was over.
29:56The Japs said it was over.
30:26The Japs said it was over.
30:56To protect the main thrust to Manila, we pushed our left flank deep into the mountains to the north.
31:02Some targets a ground soldier can't reach.
31:05Some targets a sky soldier can't see.
31:08So they worked together.
31:11Mountains would have to be bought with battles like these.
31:13I don't know if they're going to be doing okay.
31:16They're flying down there.
31:17They're doing okay.
31:19They're doing okay.
31:20They're flying too much.
31:34Too much from northwest.
31:37Too much from northwest to southeast.
31:40That is good.
31:43Now you're flying on the ball.
31:50Get your freedom.
31:51Get your freedom.
31:53Bombs.
31:54Bombs.
31:55Very nicely cleaned.
31:56They're in the target area.
32:01The tracing was effective.
32:02The C Company, a bar regiment, moving up this draw right down here.
32:07We're in a mission of attacking this ridge directly to our rear, which is about 2380 on the map.
32:15The C Company is moving through F Company's present position, located on this high ground back there.
32:22They're going to pass through F Company and attack up towards the same hill, 2380.
32:28Now can you give me a concentration on that hill?
32:31On 2380?
32:32Right.
32:32Yes, we have the 4.2 mortars, the 155, 105, and 75, all zeroed right on that hill.
32:39We can drop it right in there.
32:40Sam, I'd like a little 81 in there.
32:42I've got it.
32:44And get direct follow-up salt.
32:46We'll land right in there.
32:47Okay.
32:48Sam, I'd like a lot of light phosphorus in there.
32:50I want to mark it well for his artillery concentration and also for the screen for these troops to move on.
32:56Please, sir.
33:12Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.
33:20It's slow going up a hillside.
33:29It's slow because you've got the hill against you along with the enemy on it.
33:41It's slow going up.
33:44Sometimes slower coming down.
33:45Meantime, the main force sped down the central plains.
33:52Back of enemy lines was an important human objective, Cabana Tuan, the prisoner of war camp.
33:59If we fail to reach these men, they'll be taken with the retreating Japs on another death march.
34:06Handpicked guerrillas and a company of rangers started on a rescue mission.
34:09Twenty-five miles behind enemy lines.
34:28The living ghosts of Bataan.
34:31A thousand days and nights ago, the death march began.
34:44These are the few who finished it.
34:47Today, they are free.
34:50Cabana Tuan was a grim reminder that Filipinos and Americans were waiting in Manila.
35:20The End
35:38Manila.
36:08Now caught in a stranglehold of armies as new forces landed.
36:12And the human vice closed.
36:14G.I.s were in the outskirts.
36:19Crawling under a ballpark fence is an old American custom.
36:27Resolve Stadium.
36:29A baseball diamond.
36:35No game today.
36:38No game today.
37:08Battle never stands still.
37:11From baseball park to business district.
37:14This is a new type of jungle for island hopping GIs.
37:18A jungle of broken buildings and smashed streets.
37:22But the same kind of Japs they've always been.
37:38Yamashita had orders from Tokyo.
38:02Hold Manila or burn it.
38:08Hold Manila.
38:38Hold Manila.
38:59Manila.
39:00The Pearl of the Orient.
39:01This innocent looking piece of paper translates as follows.
39:09Japanese field order of 13 February.
39:12All Filipinos found on the battlefield will be executed.
39:15Japanese field order obeyed.
39:33Between us and the walled city was the Paseg River.
39:36And Japs.
39:41And Japs.
39:41The Pearl of the Orient.
39:48The Pearl of the Orient.
39:49The Pearl of the Orient.
39:50The Pearl of the Orient.
39:51The Pearl of the Orient.
39:52The Pearl of the Orient.
39:53The Pearl of the Orient.
39:54The Pearl of the Orient.
39:55The Pearl of the Orient.
39:56The Pearl of the Orient.
39:57The Pearl of the Orient.
39:58The Pearl of the Orient.
39:59The Pearl of the Orient.
40:00Let's go.
40:30Let's go.
41:00Street to street, we brought battle to the Japs, until they closed themselves behind
41:06the 14-foot-thick walls of Intramuros, a fortress within a city.
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42:24Back of the broken wall, broken Japs.
42:37And all around them, broken homes.
42:41Homes thousands of miles away, but American homes.
42:47Because the people who lived in them shared with us the American spirit.
42:54This is the payoff of battle.
42:57The silent reward.
43:01Many have fallen that this one may rise.
43:08This one may smile.
43:11This one may forget.
43:17This one may heal.
43:21This one may walk.
43:24This one may find a home.
43:27This one may find peace.
43:30This one may find a home.
43:36This one may experience peace.
43:37This one may find peace.
43:47And the Lord said,
44:14I have surely seen the affliction of my people.
44:17And I have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters.
44:22And I am come down to deliver them out of that land unto a good land.
44:36February, 1945.
44:39American objective, Corregidor.
44:42The general had an appointment with the past.
44:47Corregidor.
45:01The name of a rock.
45:04But it's more than a name.
45:07The way Valley Forge and the Alamo are more than names.
45:10These men will be jumping into the middle of American history.
45:16Those that live will be saying in the years to come,
45:20I was there.
45:22I jumped on Corregidor.
45:24The way Valley Forge and the Alamo!
45:36The End
46:06While C-47s still emptied their human cargos,
46:28our low-flying fighters paved the landing beaches
46:30for waterborne G.I.s who had crossed over from Bataan.
46:36Twelve days after we had landed on the rock,
46:54Corregidor is again an American fortress.
46:55The End
47:00The End
47:05A soldier's promise had been kept.
47:34A soldier's hope could now be realized.
47:38On to Tokyo.
47:41While vast armies were being marshaled in the Philippines,
47:44the Marines won Iwo Jima.
47:49And Army, Navy, and Marine forces took Okinawa.
47:52Naval guns were knocking at Japan's coastline.
48:01And Saipan-based superports were pounding Japan's skyline.
48:06Atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
48:17All this and MacArthur's impending invasion broke the enemy.
48:24The Red Sun of Japan had set.
48:27The might of a free people had come at last to triumph over the lords of war.
48:35The last beachhead.
49:00Japan.
49:00Japan.
49:00August 30th, 1945.
49:16At Sugi Airport.
49:18General of the Army, Douglas MacArthur,
49:20Commander-in-Chief of the United States Army Forces in the Pacific,
49:23designated Allied Supreme Commander to accept the surrender of the Japanese.
49:31He was met by Lieutenant General Eichelberger, commanding the 8th Army.
49:35September 1st, 1945.
49:52On the battleship Missouri.
49:54Missouri.
49:54It is my earnest hope,
50:21and indeed the hope of all mankind that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge
50:33out of the blood and carnage of the past, a world founded upon faith and understanding,
50:40a world dedicated to the dignity of man and the fulfillment of his most cherished wish for freedom, tolerance, and justice.
50:53I now invite the representatives of the Emperor of Japan and the Japanese government
51:04and the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters
51:08to sign the instrument of surrender at the places indicated.
51:13The Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the United States.
51:43For the Allied powers will now sign on behalf of all the nations at war with Japan.
51:53Will General Wainwright and General Pressable step forward
51:57and accompany me while I sign?
51:59The representative,
52:14The representatives of the United States of America will now sign.
52:33Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world,
53:02and that God will preserve it always.
53:08These proceedings are closed.
53:12To you, beloved honey, we made this solemn vow.
53:28To you, beloved honey, we made this solemn vow.
53:42The fight will go on.
53:47The fight will still go on.
53:53The fight will still go on.
54:11The fight will still go on.
54:22After a sera.
54:24After a sera.
54:25Hope you found it follow.
54:28Bye-bye now.
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