Now Is the Past My Father Java the Phantom Films

During the Second World War Japanese film editor Chounosuke Ise made numerous propaganda films in Japaneseoccupied Indonesia Their purpose was to justify Japans hegemony in Asia claiming liberation of these countries from colonialism Chounosuke Ises son filmmaker Shinichi Ise traces the path taken by his father who barely spoke about the war or Indonesia and was seemingly reluctant to discuss what he had done there