Mukden Incident - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

  • The Mukden Incident is depicted in the Tintin book The Blue Lotus, although the book places the bombing near Shanghai.
  • In Akira Kurosawa's 1946 film No Regrets for Our Youth, the subject of the Mukden Incident is debated.
  • See also Junji Kinoshita's play A Japanese Called Otto, which opens with the characters discussing the Mukden Incident.
  • The 2010 Japanese anime Night Raid 1931 is a 13-episode spy/pulp series set in 1931 Shanghai and Manchuria. Episode 7, "Incident", specifically covers the Mukden Incident.
  • The violent manga Gantz has a reference when an elder says that an occurrence reminds him of the "Manchurian Incident".
  • Dutch Death Metal band Hail Of Bullets covers the event in the song The Mukden Incident on their 2010 album "On Divine Winds", a concept album about the Pacific Ocean theatre of World War II.

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