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Guadalcanal: The Battle That Broke Japan’s Samurai Myth

In August 1942, the soldiers of Imperial Japan arrived on Guadalcanal certain of one thing: the Americans would break. They had conquered across Asia with stunning speed. They believed in bushido. They believed in spiritual superiority. They believed Americans were soft. They were wrong. This documentary tells the story of the Battle of Guadalcanal entirely through Japanese eyes — through diaries, memoirs, captured letters, and post-war testimony. From Colonel Kiyonao Ichiki’s confident promise of victory within 48 hours… to the annihilation of his detachment at the Tenaru River. From the shock of Kawaguchi’s failed night assault on Edson’s Ridge… to the starvation and collapse of the Sendai Division. Wave after wave of elite Japanese troops encountered something they had not expected: U.S. Marines who did not panic. Who did not retreat. Who did not run out of ammunition. As casualty ratios mounted — 800 dead at Tenaru, 700 at Matanikau — something deeper began to fracture. Not just units. Not just strategy. But belief itself. Through Japanese words and perception, we follow the psychological transformation: Confidence → Confusion → Respect → Fear → Despair → Resignation. By the end of Guadalcanal, surviving veterans would describe it as the place where they learned a devastating truth: Americans would never surrender — and they had infinite bullets. This is not a triumph story. It is a tragedy of disintegration. A slow realization that bushido spirit could not overcome industrial warfare. Guadalcanal was not just Japan’s first major land defeat. It was the night the warrior myth died.