Man, were just pissing off the Pacific Rim left and right with cinema these days.
Actually, this film is likely to do very well in China, S.Korea and the former IndoChina as well as the Philippines, all areas that were under Japanese domination at the time of the movie. Cultural memory will give this movie resonance that matches their war-time antagonisms.
The Chinese President, Xi Jinping and other Chinese leaders just presided Saturday at a ceremony on the 77th anniversary of the Nanking massacre by the Imperial Japanese Army. Also known in the west as "The Rape of Nanjing", it remains a monument to utter barbarity as practiced under the guise of war.
If this movie didn’t piss off the Japs, then it would not be an accurate account of the way they treated our soldiers. The Japs deserved to be bombed into the 17tg century and nuked into oblivion.
Read the book. You’ll be celebrating the incineration of Hiroshima.
But the book is a story of redemption and forgiveness. I only hope the movie is 10% as good as the book. I don’t think it’s possible. I don’t think they could have made a movie that would accurately portray just how evil the Japs were.