Remember: you can’t make any movie about postwar Japan without also making it about the warcrimes of Imperial Japan /s
This is like bitching that Grave of the Fireflies doesn’t call out the atrocities committed by unit 731 so it’s bad.
The regular people featured in Godzilla Minus One talk about how corrupt and destructive their government is; they explicitly call attention to the fact that their government didn’t care at all about the lives of its own people. I think it is pretty telling that if Imperial Japan is letting it’s own civilians starve or forcing them into pointless suicide attacks, then they certainly wouldn’t care about American POWs or Chinese peasants.
The Japanese Army and the Japanese politicians never really paid for their WW2 crimes and the crimes committed prior to that (the invasion of China started in 1937, 1931 if you include Manchuria). They even left the Japanese emperor in place after WW2.
Hirohito was not Adolf Hitler and the idea that he should have been deposed is such a dumb take. The Emperor was a symbolic figurehead who helped unite and reconcile postwar Japan.
> The Emperor was a symbolic figurehead who helped unite and reconcile postwar Japan.
Yes, the symbol of the Nanjing Massacre.
> and reconcile postwar Japan.
That was the US's doing, Japan still functions by the constitution imposed by MacArthur.
Also, more generally, the fact that people in the West are white-washing guys like Hirohito is a very big part of why we're in the current geopolitical mess. It would help if, for once, the West would admit: "yeah, we let that killer in place because it suited our geo-political interests back in the day". But were they (the Westerners) to do that then we wouldn't have blog-posts like this one here which totally goes over Japan's war-crimes (and does not mention Hiroshima nor Nagasaki, although it doesn't forget to mention that China, Russia and North Korea now have nukes).
Soldier is on losing side of war, was unable to go through with morally objectionable orders, comes home to find everyone they ever knew died in bombing campaigns, and over time has to learn how to deal with the psychological and physical toll the war left on them.
But of course that's an absurd premise because Nazis and apparently the Japanese are not humans and therefore can't have human-like stories or something I guess.
Shit and you're not even the same person who commented above that all Japanese movies should essentially be 2 hours of Japanese actors apologizing for war atrocities their country committed 80 years ago.
This is like bitching that Grave of the Fireflies doesn’t call out the atrocities committed by unit 731 so it’s bad.
The regular people featured in Godzilla Minus One talk about how corrupt and destructive their government is; they explicitly call attention to the fact that their government didn’t care at all about the lives of its own people. I think it is pretty telling that if Imperial Japan is letting it’s own civilians starve or forcing them into pointless suicide attacks, then they certainly wouldn’t care about American POWs or Chinese peasants.