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ORIGINAL: Terminus

Letters from Okinawa is the companion to Flags of Our Fathers, and is told entirely from the Japanese point of view.

ORIGINAL: Nikademus

It looks very interesting. Even GF unit is interested...and since it's in Japanese and captioned....GF unit and I could go to the theatre for once instead of waiting for DVD. (Her hearing makes theatre going a lost cause)

ORIGINAL: Terminus

I just turned off the Nanking video. It got really tiresome when the narrator commented about the hysterically laughing Japanese soldiers for the third time...[8|]

ORIGINAL: Big B

Maybe I'll see it and 'Flags' someday, but I am really unimpressed with the Hollywood - ever since they discovered special effects, they decided to pay for them by ignoring the 'story' and assuming the audience has a collective IQ of 31(they must look around the room at their board meetings and figure they are just like everyone else), and they assume no-one has any knowledge of history (they may be correct on the last point - and they aren't about to change it).

ORIGINAL: Nikademus

ORIGINAL: Terminus

I just turned off the Nanking video. It got really tiresome when the narrator commented about the hysterically laughing Japanese soldiers for the third time...[8|]

Well consider the source......

ORIGINAL: Terminus

There's a reason Clint Eastwood has won so much praise as a director. He's immensely talented...

ORIGINAL: Demosthenes


There is no doubt about the films' propagandistic appearance - complete with film of other aircraft at other times.... but this beleaguers the point.

There is far more than enough real film - shot by the Japanese themselves - of the unimaginable horror that is being committed in front of you - to not have to dwell on the inaccuracies in the film such as Spitfires flying, or Japanese planes being shot down at sea.

I suppose it's good that the human mind rejects the subject matter of the documentary so much - that we want to look away and laugh at the film - punish the film for punishing us with a look at hell right here on earth. Yes, that is all good - but let's not forget the bigger truth the film is saying, and not dismiss it all because of it's crude style

ORIGINAL: spence

I got the impression that the film was made in China though that may just be because another version of the film, apparently in Chinese, was on the same Google video page. I found the dubbed screaming and the repetitious photos a bit tiresome but I'd guess not nearly so much as those that endured the Japanese rampage found the real thing.

ORIGINAL: wild_Willie2

I also must agree with Terminus that the movie has a BIG propaganda load, and is pretty much one sided. Although it is true that the Japs commited atrocities on a grand scale in China and in their other "liberated" territories, I dont think this movie gives a good historicall account of them.

Maybe next time they should try to make a movie with less screaming and some more hard facts....

ORIGINAL: Nikademus

Yep...sounds like a propaganda film to me given Terminus's description. Like i said, I'll stick to the book by Iris Chang and i recommend it highly to anyone who has a real interest in the Rape of Nanking.