Marai no Tora

Marai no Tora (マライの虎, lit. "The Tiger of Malaya") is a 1943 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Koga Masato. It tells the story of Tani Yutaka, known as "Harimau" (Malay word for "Tiger") who was a secret agent for the Japanese military who died in a hospital in Singapore. It is debatable that Tani Yutaka is the true "Harimau Malaya" or "The Tiger of Malaya" and not Tomoyuki Yamashita.[3][4][5][6][7][8]

Marai no Tora
マライの虎
The Tiger of Malaya
Directed byKoga Masato
Written byKeizo Kimura (writer)
StarringKoji Nakata
Ryo Akaboshi
Production
company
Release date
  • June 24, 1943 (1943-06-24)[1][2]
Running time
86 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Cast
  • Koji Nakata as Tani Yutaka
  • Ryo Akaboshi as farmer

References
  1. (in Japanese) http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1943/bs000360.htm accessed 27 May 2009
  2. Video on YouTube
  3. Michael Baskett The Attractive Empire: Transnational Film Culture in Imperial Japan 2008- Page 188 "Marai no tora, Eiga kyakuhon (Apr. 1943), ... The top five were Heiroku's Dream Tales (Heiroku yume monogatari, Toho), Tiger of Malay (Marai no tora, Daiei), Singapore All-out Attack (Shingaporu sokogeki, Daiei), Daughter (Musume, ..."
  4. Stephen C. Mercado The Shadow Warriors of Nakano: A History of the Imperial Japanese ... 2002 - Page 32 "Marai no Tora (Tiger of Malaya), starring the dashing actor Nakata Koji in the title role, hit Japanese theaters in 1943."
  5. Hiroshi Kitamura Screening Enlightenment: Hollywood and the Cultural Reconstruction ... 2010 - Page 263 "Tiger in Malaya, or Marai no tora (1943)"
  6. Remco Raben, Representing the Japanese occupation of Indonesia: personal ... - Rijksmuseum (Netherlands) - 1999 Page 231 "The first film version was Marai no tora (Tiger of Malay, 1943, Daiei, 84 minutes). Next was a live action children's TV show Kaiketsu Harimao (Amazing Harimao, 1960-1961, NTV [Nihon Television], 65 30-minute episodes)."
  7. Markus Nornes, Yukio Fukushima The Japan/America film wars: World War II propaganda and its ... 1994 - Pages 80, 82, 240 index p.289 "Tiger of Malaya, The (Marai no tora)"
  8. Yukio Fukushima 福島行雄, Markus Nornes Nichi-Bei eigasen: Pāru Hābā 50-shūnen Seisakusho (Toa Sound News Co) 1991 Page 72 "Marai no Tora (The Tiger of Malay, 1943) is a war propaganda film based on the famous legend of Harimao. The hero, Tani Yutaka, who had fallen into a trap staged by British Imperialists and saw his child ..."


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