[RaceBannon]

I see no problem with showing the human side of an enemy. Iwo Jima has stories of Marines who found pictures of Japanese families in the helmets of the men they just mowed down, and how the Marines choked up at seeing their human counterpart's families.

The individual humaness of a battle and our enemy does not offend me.

BUT, I do wish your second point was addressed more completely, such as the reason we went to war in the first place, without including Pearl Harbor. Those actions were surely lacking heroism, such as the Bataan death march and the Rape of Nanking.

Movies about those issues can never be sanitized and still be called accurate, but showing the struggles and worries and heroism of the Japs when facing an invasion, I dont see a problem with that, as long as we still know they are the bad guys.

You have to admit, they KNEW they were going to die. They showed some fanatical boldness, a ferocity that has not been matched until Fallujah.

As combat soldiers, they were surely respected.

[Coop]

Yes, I have so much more respect for the Japanese soldiers - who right or wrong were defending their country just like you or me - as opposed to these current cowardly sleazeballs who live to slaughter children in day care centers or families at wedding parties and restaurants.

[SandRat]

...as long as we still know they are the bad guys.

That's just it; when the mindset of Hollywood on War is in full gear will they still know much less say so in the film?