Eastwood was just over here in Japan promoting the film . I saw him on TV . He's not out to be historically accurate ; he is out to make millions . If the film were to portray the Japanese to be evil the Japanese wouldn't go see it and HE would lost his arse over here . Heck - even the flick Pearl Harbor was butchered so that Japanese wouldn't be too offended . It pisses me off , but Hollywood doesn't give a rat's arse about anything but moola and PC .
You got that right. The Japanese were called "Japs" in WWII for a reason. Bataan, Nanking, Shanghai...