Really good ending.

Really good ending.

First half has some of the best combat scenes I've ever seen, second half destroys you 

Death to imperialism

First half has some of the best combat scenes I've ever seen, second half destroys you 

Death to imperialism

“women suffered most. no matter how young or old, they all could not escape the fate of being raped. we sent out coal trucks to the city streets and villages to seize a lot of women. and then each of them was allocated to fifteen to twenty soldiers for sexual intercourse and abuse. after raping we would also kill them.”

fucking putrid. im a firm believer that the dropping of atomic bombs on both Hiroshima and Nagasaki is the greatest act of mercy in human history. in all honesty, they deserved far worse.

watching films like this and Masaki Kobayashi’s ‘Tokyo Trial’ conjure such intense anger and hatred within me. the fact that many of the heinous creatures who perpetrated these atrocities got off scot-free is absolutely appalling. Ishii, Hirohito, and the whole lot of them deserved the same treatment as the victims of Nanjing, Manchuria, Southeast Asia, etc. absolutely fucking despicable, sickening, and infuriating. japan largely underplaying or even denying some of these events makes it that much worse. the older and more educated i become, the more i realize japan is a cultural and historical hellhole.

“women suffered most. no matter how young or old, they all could not escape the fate of being raped. we sent out coal trucks to the city streets and villages to seize a lot of women. and then each of them was allocated to fifteen to twenty soldiers for sexual intercourse and abuse. after raping we would also kill them.”

fucking putrid. im a firm believer that the dropping of atomic bombs on both Hiroshima and Nagasaki is the greatest act of mercy in human history. in all honesty, they deserved far worse.

watching films like this and Masaki Kobayashi’s ‘Tokyo Trial’ conjure such intense anger and hatred within me. the fact that many of the heinous creatures who perpetrated these atrocities got off scot-free is absolutely appalling. Ishii, Hirohito, and the whole lot of them deserved the same treatment as the victims of Nanjing, Manchuria, Southeast Asia, etc. absolutely fucking despicable, sickening, and infuriating. japan largely underplaying or even denying some of these events makes it that much worse. the older and more educated i become, the more i realize japan is a cultural and historical hellhole.

Really good and really hard to watch. At least it was a film and not a documentary to give it a little separation.

Really good and really hard to watch. At least it was a film and not a documentary to give it a little separation.

i watched for educational purposes, and i think to a certain extent it’s important to acknowledge horrors if they’ve occurred, so here i am. still i’m plagued with regret. a horrifying event historically and a horrifying film to watch reenact such a tragedy. the violence on humanity in general (acknowledging women & girls and their suffering here though is so incredibly important considering how drawn out and detrimental it was to their lives) is portrayed so starkly here it feels like a documentary, thus i just can’t rate it. i doubt i’ll ever watch this again, nor will i ever recommend it to anyone but a select few, but i will certainly be thinking of this film and the victims of nanking for what i think might be forever.

i watched for educational purposes, and i think to a certain extent it’s important to acknowledge horrors if they’ve occurred, so here i am. still i’m plagued with regret. a horrifying event historically and a horrifying film to watch reenact such a tragedy. the violence on humanity in general (acknowledging women & girls and their suffering here though is so incredibly important considering how drawn out and detrimental it was to their lives) is portrayed so starkly here it feels like a documentary, thus i just can’t rate it. i doubt i’ll ever watch this again, nor will i ever recommend it to anyone but a select few, but i will certainly be thinking of this film and the victims of nanking for what i think might be forever.