[KRAKRISMOTT]

> Making a film about redemption without in any way commenting on the evil atrocities you committed is extremely Japanese and morally dubious at best... downright propaganda at worst. Were the Japanese public and military rank and file the real victims of the war? Is it ok to pronounce the moral ambiguity of the top brass without commenting on the Holocaust-level crimes committed?

It's easy to cast them as bad guys because they were defeated. Victor's justice and everything. Be thankful for nukes else one day the shoe might be on the other foot and and history will be rewritten again.

[hughesjj]

> It's easy to cast them as bad guys because they were defeated.

Real interesting response to 'holocaust level crimes'

Historically the US absolutely treated our natives and African descendents to a similar level of horror, but we 1. Own that and 2. Weren't doing anything to that level en masse by the time WWII came around.

I love Japan and it's people but I will absolutely throw shade at their cowardice in ignoring the sins of their past (at the cultural/national level).

[atticora]

> It's easy to cast them as bad guys because they were defeated.

It's also easy because they were the aggressors. The attack on Pearl Harbor when we were at peace does not leave a lot of room for nuance. We were not their oppressors, we were just in the way of their conquests.

[aamoyg]

Well we stopped selling them oil, so they must have framed us as oppressing their expansion

[KRAKRISMOTT]

I am sure the middle easterns were the bad guys during the Gulf war too.

[aamoyg]

I should have put the /s tag in my post. And the Gulf War wasn't even our war to get involved in.