Still debating if I want to see it in theaters yet. Japanese behavior during WWII tends to raise my blood pressure and give me toothaches.
Nobody feels sorry for what happened to Germany because of WWII. But due to the A-blasts, many people somehow feel Japan was wronged by the Allies. The Japanese were about as bad as the Germans concerning atrocities. It wasn't just Allied POWs who were subjected to brutal conditions...the Japanese murdered millions of civilians in China and other Asian countries.
Even before the world war started, Japan had invaded China and started merciless treatment of civilians. Many millions of Chinese civilians were killed by the Japanese. Maybe a million or more in other Asian countries.
So no tears here for the Japanese who were killed in Allied bombing raids. Sorry. Like Germany, they reaped the whirlwind.
***Japanese behavior during WWII tends to raise my blood pressure**
Especially since the US government gave up looking for Japanese war criminals a few years after the war, but will still compass land and sea to root out an aged Nazi prison guard.
The abuse depicted in this movie doesn’t live up to what went on in the PI, it appears. But it is a decent movie. I believe it’s PG-13 so the violence is toned down.