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Type 97 hand grenade
The Type 97 hand grenade was the main grenade used by Japanese forces during the Second World War. It was more or less just the earlier multi-purpose Type 91 grenade with the attachment socket for a propellant canister deleted from the base, preventing it from being used as a rifle grenade or light mortar projectile as the Type 91 could be, and with the 7-8 second fuze replaced with a 4-5 second fuze to prevent the grenade being thrown back.
The grenade still suffered from the same bizarre fuze design as the Type 91, extreme variations in fuze burn time, and was still not particularly effective compared to other WW2 designs due to its small explosive content and cylindrical body which made throwing it uphill a hazardous activity.
The Type 97 High-Explosive Fragmentation hand grenade can be seen in the following films and video games used by the following actors:
Film
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Fighting Seabees | Japanese soldiers | 1944 | ||
| Pride of the Marines | wounded Japanese soldier | 1945 | ||
| None But the Brave | Tatsuya Mihashi | Lt. Kuroki | 1965 | |
| The Thin Red Line | Imperial Japanese soldiers | 1998 | ||
| Pearl Harbor | Michael Shannon | Lt. "Gooz" Wood | 2001 | |
| Imperial Japanese troops | ||||
| Windtalkers | Imperial Japanese troops | 2002 | ||
| Letters from Iwo Jima | Imperial Japanese Army and Navy troops | 2006 | ||
| Death and Glory in Changde | Wenkang Yuan | Capt. Feng Baohua | 2010 | |
| Imperial Japanese troops | ||||
| The Flowers of War | Imperial Japanese Army soldiers | 2011 | ||
| My Way | Dong-gun Jang | Kim Jun-Shik | 2011 | |
| Imperial Japanese troops | ||||
| Oba: The Last Samurai | Part of booby traps | 2011 | ||
| Cold Steel (Bian di lang yan) | Tony Leung Ka Fai | Zhang Menzi | 2011 | |
| Victor Chen | A Gui | |||
| Imperial Japanese troops | ||||
| Hacksaw Ridge | Imperial Japanese soldiers | 2016 |
Television
| Title/Episode | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Pacific | Imperial Japanese troops | 2010 |
Video Games
| Game Title | Referred as | Mods | Note | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medal of Honor: Rising Sun | 2003 | |||
| Hidden & Dangerous 2 | "Grenade typ 97" | 2004 | ||
| Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault | 2004 | |||
| The History Channel: Battle for the Pacific | 2007 | |||
| Call of Duty: World at War | 2008 | |||
| Battlefield: 1943 | 2009 | |||
| Sniper Elite III | 2014 | |||
| Red Orchestra 2: Rising Storm | "Type 97 frag grenade" | 2013 | ||
| Sniper Elite 4 | 2017 | |||
| Yakuza Kiwami | Used in cutscene by Futoshi Shimano | 2017 |