 The making of the movie had gone into controversies such as, using Filipino and American POW's as extras along with the Filipino which is invited or coerced them into work along with the Japanese actors specially in the scene where the photograph under the ad copy shows two Japanese soldiers holding a group of Filipinos at bay under gun point.Without seeing the film, one would not know the Filipinos were thieves caught by vigilant Japanese soldiers protecting the local population.Whether wittingly or not, the advertisement throws the terms of this "co-production" into question, This was how the Japanese producers formed the all-star cast and crew for The Dawn of Freedom.