US Military Films

I found these two US military films while I was researching the time period my grandparents lived in Japan (late '60s, early '70s) with the hopes of trying to better understand Japanese-American relations. When played side by side it is easy to see the tense political relationship between Japan and America in the mid-20th century. These propaganda films were made only a little over ten years apart but have dramatically different views. The newer film seems to blame the viewer for believing the information presented in the older film (though if people did believe it, it achieved its purpose?). However, both films could be seen as equally manipulative of Japanese culture, even though the tones are quite different (light-hearted vs. militaristic) - this is what is especially disturbing to me as a film major.