[against_kerry]

I am guessing that this film will depict the true story of the inhumane way the Japanese killed our soldiers.

[The Blitherer]

Hollywood REALLY needs to get over itself.

[RSmithOpt]

Not to mention the Rape of Nan King, wholesale slaughter of Chinese, Koreans, and the scores of Filipino girls 14-16 yrs old forced into service at the Jap Pleasure Camps to the turn of 40-60 men per day.

[RetiredArmy]

No, probably more like how our troops illegally invaded IJ and killed those poor, defenseless Japanese farmers who were peacefully working in their fields.

[unspun]

More of Hollywood's sympathy for the Devil, apparently.

[Borges]

Eastwood has had this in the works for a while as a counterpart to his earlier film from the American point of view. It's been done before with Tora Tora Tora. I sincerely doubt anything produced by spielberg about WW2 would be a Hate America film.

[Sans-Culotte]

The dumbest statement in the article:
I think it's also a searing condemnation of war.

[Al Gator]

I think you guys are charging off half cocked.
Clint isn't into revisionism. This is the other side of an epic battle. He tells the first side in Flags of Our Fathers.

As a student of the war in the Pacific, I will really want to see this.

Japanese soldiers were ruthless. But that had more to do with how they got into the trenches in the first place. Not excusing their barbarity, but their society was still feudal thinking and barbarity in warfare was just another day at the beach for them. That notwithstanding, knowing what they were thinking is fascinating. From a historians point of view, I hope he is the same old Clint from yesteryear and just lets the pieces fall.

I've heard that he does just that and it isn't anti American at all.

We'll see.

[DTogo]

"I was blown away by its delicacy, the poignancy of how he talks about war. I think it's also a searing condemnation of war. It was a unique view of the Japanese side of the battle. We don't always see that."

So what's new? A lot of great war movies have scenes/speeches that condemn war, war-weary soldiers griping about war, grieving soldiers, traumatized soldiers: Guns of Navarone, Patton, We Were Soldiers, Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers, etc. to name a few.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Yeah, I bet the film really captures the way that the Japanese Army behaved during the war...

...or maybe not!

[macamadamia]

Supposedly, Eastwood said this about the movie: What's human sacrifice if not sending guys off to Apocalypto for no reason?

[Proud_USA_Republican]

Clint refused to show this in Flags of our fathers. Such as american soliders captured by the Japanese being tortured and multilated as they were.
Instead he concentrates on
Racism by whites against blacks and indians, portraying the flag raising on iwo jima as just a scam so america could sell war bonds, and making soliders all out to be stupid idiots for daring to fight for their country.

[HIDEK6]

I think it's also a searing condemnation of war.

OK, asshole, if you have a better idea I'm all ears.

[Waco]

The enemy don't seem to go for all this sh*t!!!!

[windcliff]

ping

[TET1968]

It's from a Japanese perspective.