Thread 213538994

Are there any Japanese movies about their war crimes in Asia?

>>213538994 (OP)
>Are there any Japanese movies about their war crimes in Asia?
is there any documentary on the origins of anime?

>>213538994 (OP)
Devils on the Doorstep
Men Behind the Sun

I'm sure there's more Chinese films about the war

>>213539025
Those two films are Chinese

>>213539025
My bad I misread the post. Fires on the Plain kind of

>>213538994 (OP)
Watch Men Behind the Sun

You must not have seen the number one streamed anime "My Country Is Now Part of the Greater Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere!?"

This is the only one I know of
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Devils

>>213539048
Same thing

>>213538994 (OP)
It's interesting that there are next to no such films considering Japan had a bunch of leftist directors and you'd expect them to cover this issue.
Did studios outright forbid this topic for some reason? Were the studios funded or blackmailed by right-wing politicians? Was there some kind of a censorship code akin to the Hays Code in the US? Were they concerned about national PR or something?

Is there any country that makes films about their own war crimes?

>>213539213
Given how Japan has been dominated politically by a US-backed right-wing establishmentarian party with revisionist tendencies, founded by a convicted war criminal the US pardoned for their own means then yes, it's likely that these subject are perceived as taboo and that even the most radical directors need to walk carefully around the subject.

Fires on the Plain
The Human Condition

>>213539886
>founded by a convicted war criminal the US pardoned for their own means
He was also a gooner
>As a self-described "playboy of the Eastern world", Kishi was known during his four years in Manchukuo for his lavish spending amid much drinking, gambling, and womanizing.[31] Kishi spent almost all of his time in Manchukuo's capital, Xinjing (modern Changchun, China) with the exception of monthly trips on the world famous Asia Express railroad line to Dalian, where he indulged in his passion for women in alcohol- and sex-drenched weekends.[32] When he was locked up in Sugamo prison in 1946 awaiting trial, he reminisced about his Manchukuo years: "I came so much, it was hard to clean it all up”.[32] According to Driscoll, "photographs and written descriptions of Kishi during this period never fail to depict a giddy exuberance: laughing and joking while doling out money during the day and looking forward to drinking and fornicating at night."[33] Kishi was able to afford his hedonistic, free-spending lifestyle as he had control over millions of yen with virtually no oversight, thanks to being deeply involved in and profiting from the opium trade.[34]

>>213538994 (OP)
No. America and Germany are unique in their self hatred.

>>213539989
The US' third biggest sin in Japan was fucking over the left-wing and my boy Tetsu Katayana

>>213540039
>my boy
Reddit phrase

>>213540050
*My beautiful nigger, excuse me

>>213539989
Dude was an utter sexhaver chad while looking like this. Either the looksmaxxers are copers or having sex back then was as easy as falling off a log

>>213540017
The truth shall set you free, my child.

>>213538994 (OP)
All propaganda

>>213540039
LDPchads stay winning, sucks to suck pinko

>>213540190>>
Cool it with the antisemitic remarks.

>>213540017
How many films have Americans made about their own war crimes? Their self-flagellating movies tend to be about slavery, segregation and colonization, rather than shit like My Lai or Abu Ghraib

>>213540234
>pinko
In Japan's case they've needed social programs bad since yesteryear
>stay winning
Where's that famous governing majority?

Most of their "war crimes" are exaggerated by south korean liberals and chicoms.

>>213540251
Have you never seen a single vietnam flick?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaji_Kitano
>He was the second commander of Unit 731, a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit responsible for some of the most notorious war crimes carried out by Japanese personnel.[1][2][3]
>In conducting his studies, Kitano extensively used human subjects for his experiments. A number of his publications in Japanese scientific journals for twenty years were based from these experiments. Readers of his works as well as students at Mukden Military Medical College became aware of his use of code names. Whenever he used the term "monkeys" instead of a specific species of primates, he was referring to humans from other nationalities.[7]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Cross_(Japanese_company)
>Green Cross was founded in 1950 as Japan's first commercial blood bank and became a diversified international pharmaceutical company producing ethical drugs for delivery or administration by doctors and healthcare workers. Its founders included war criminals such as Masaji Kitano who performed torture and experiments on humans in the Japanese military's notorious Unit 731 during World War II. Also serving as a consultant for the company was Murray Sanders, the American officer and physician who had petitioned for Kitano's acquittal after the war.
>In the late 1980s, Green Cross and Takeshi Abe were at the center of a scandal in which up to 3,000 Japanese people contracted HIV through the distribution and use of blood products which were known to be unsafe.[1][2]
Crazy shit

>>213540234
>Reiwa 7
>not supporting Nippon Ishin
NGMI

>>213540319
>weebs running defense for japan online because they're butthurt japan is getting their shit kicked in by kpop and kdrama
aigoo
apologize for comfort women
dokdo is korean

>>213540476
Taro's a trooper, kinda wish politicians in other countries shared in his commitment to justice

>>213540553
There isn't a single piece of korean media as influential as 7 Samurai, Evangelion, or One Piece.
Demon Slayer alone has made more money than the entire gookrean entertainment industry.

>>213540553
Source

>>213540553
>Cultural diplomacy means we win you lose
After continuing to getting spoonfed with anime it makes sense that Lesser Korea would finally make something they'd enjoy back

>half dead kneeling white guy is still nearly as tall as the jap standing as erect as possible with arms raised
How embarrassing

>>213540636
That's exactly how it works you dumb faggot
Cope and seethe

>>213540698
>Tells you you're right
>"Yeah, I'm right."
Retard

>>213538994 (OP)
The City of Life and Death

>>213540726
Chinese film

>demanding national self-flaggelation as payment for having raped you 100 years ago
are koreans and chinks the jews of asia?

>>213540719
Cope

>>213540804
Japanese people keep dogs as pets.
Koreans and chinese eat them.

Tells you everything you need to know about who is good and bad.

>>213540839
but who's ugly?

Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack

>>213540804
Demands for national self-flaggelation are cringe and it's not about that. I'm just curious if there's any Japanese media about e.g. Unit 731

>>213540839
Tbf eating dogs is starving peasant shit, but if anyone still takes pride in raising dogs to eat is scum

IIRC in the second Female Prisoner Scorpion movie there's a scene where a bunch of old men are about to rape a woman and one of them says: "this reminds me of the good old days in Manchuria"

>>213540657
And yet despite his stature he remains the one beheaded. Curious.

>>213540868
indian "people"

>>213538994 (OP)
Korean TV show Eyes of Dawn (1991)
don't expect truth from a jap

>>213540900
>eating dogs? You evil fuck!
>Yes waiter I'll have the roast leg of lamb please

>>213541038
Lamb actually tastes good and is intendes as such (best part is the head). Dogs don't have any meat on them anyway, and the meat they do have sucks

>>213538994 (OP)
It's not constituted as a crime when they did nothing wrong. Seethe more Chang Yu.

>>213540804
Chinese quite literally are, ask any SEA people. Intensely clannish, mercantile, disproportionate influence relative to their population, etc.

>Korean TV show
>don't expect truth from a jap

>>213541090
The Billion Tears of Humiliation or whatever broke their little hearts and their inflated pride has been wounded ever since

The new Shogun is the only production I know of that doesn't shy away from historic Japan's barbarism

>>213541420
Mononoke touches on it by mentioning the Emishi displacement and genocide, and by showing samurai as violent, greedy bastards

>>213540839
>Koreans and chinese eat them.
baller humans are more important than a psiecko will ever be

>>213541420
The scene where that one faggot nephew of the slimey one just lops some dudes head off for literally no reason in front of Blackthorne still sticks out to me. It's just so pointless, random, inconsequential, and disgusting.

>>213541608
If you read about almost any point in Japanese history the death scale of commoners is notable

>>213541648
Yeah I'm aware, that scene was just markedly effective for me. It happens so fast and is so jarring that I shared the muted shock of Blackthorne when it happened. It's just such a spontaneous display of extreme violence that even a gritty murderous sailor like Blackthorne is shocked by it.

>>213541456
>and by showing samurai as violent, greedy bastards
It is interesting how Japan evolved an incredibly similar system to European feudalism by pure coincidence, complete with knights/samurai being violent retards who had to be constantly tardwrangled by regional lords.

>>213541692
It's not unheard of, but the inherent value of land given the mountainous nature of Japan and the emphasis placed on lords kind of led to this parallel development.

>>213540553
Go back to your containment thread schizo >>>/kdg/

>>213538994 (OP)
The first film in the Human Condition Trilogy deals with a work camp in Manchuria and features a variety of war crimes, including some executions done in a very similar style to the image you posted

>>213540162
>Kishi
women in Japan at that time were property or so poor they sold themselves not to starve. Pussy was plentiful if you had yen

>>213541608
The Man in the High Castle was bullshit. nazis bad, imperial japs are your 21st century Asian neighbors

>>213542015
>Alternate history TV show
>Bullshit
Why I'd never

>>213541692
>>213541751
I strongly theorize that the reason why Japan was able to click so well with westerners and adapt the most advanced western innovations to rise to the same level was due to this cultural parallel with knights, castles, lords n' sheeit

>>213542100
They also just learned a lesson from China: adapt or die

>>213540017
it's not necessarily self hatred. it's more that if you've won the culture, you feel comfortable being vulnerable because you know nobody can kill you.

>>213542147
>because you know nobody can kill you.
In Germany's case not so much

>>213541889
Nobody cares about genocides anymore because of the Jews milking the horocraust.

The masses learned it's a way for manipulators to gain leverage in society by adopting perpetual victimhood. Now as a defensive measure they overcompensate by denying them entirely.

>>213538994 (OP)
hayao miyazaki

>>213538994 (OP)
the reality is that the existence of america today just justify their actions even more

>>213539989
Not his fault for liking woman, americans by the way worship black phallus and troons...

>>213541090
SEA niggers are just retarded. Any foreign diaspora outcompetes them on their home turf.

>>213539059
One of the best horror movies ever, makes The Shining look like Sesame Street.

>>213538994 (OP)
Hero (2022)

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence isn't necessarily about war crimes, but the Japanese aren't portrayed as the good guys either

>>213540328
They all are about how sad the American soldiers are on committing war crimes than the actual victims

>>213539213
Very likely the case. At best you'll get anti-war messaging that is universalized enough to pass or vague historical parallels.

>>213540614
>Evangelion
Come on, xillenial, nobody gives a shit about that anymore.
>Demon Slayer alone has made more money than the entire gookrean entertainment industry
Kek, clueless unc.

>>213538994 (OP)
I want a movie about this like you can't believe.

>>213545784
The only genuinely subversive American media about Vietnam is pic related, of course written by an ethnically Vietnamese person.

>>213539213
Dude they kill teachers for refusing to fly the imperial flag in class still.

>>213541692
>>213542100
>relation between war caste and land owners is so unique!
Goddammit muttmerican weebs are retarded swines.

The Japanese aren't really interested in talking about their war stories, but they absolutely loved making tons of exploitational shogun movies. Those ones still had a fair amount of rape and violence.

>>213540207
>>213540319
>>213541075
Niggers that's fucking stupid. Every other side of conflict knew about whicked shit that japs did in WW2, confirmed even by the Reich. Hell, Russian Empire documented loads of colonial atrocityes propagated by Japan way before Russo-Japanese war. It's actually funny that Korea was relatively less exploited and Japan actually wanted to integrate them proper into their empire.
Hell, you can learn about how mindlessly cruel takeshis can be simply by studying their internal conflicts. They were as merciless to eachother.

>>213539025

Men Behind The Sun is disturbing.

>all these anons with a master of nippon lore
this really is a weeb site isnt it

>>213538994 (OP)
oblig.

>>213545949
Based

>>213545929
There's a bit about it in this.

>>213540631
Reverse image search yielded Korean drama Our Unwritten Seoul. I think the girl is cute too, but not cute enough to watch her in anything other than sci-fi kino.

>>213542441
Everybody with any education knows the only war crimes was the shoah perpetuated by evil natsees who hated noble, innocent Jews simply for being of a different religion. Jews never, ever have done anything wrong and all wh*te people are evil.

Low key /pol/ thread

>>213547938
the abortion-through-bayonet scene is the funniest thing ever

>>213539213
The left wing in japan does not regret the war, it sees it as the great liberation war of asia.
The only group who did was the exteme left anti japanese group that literally had the masterplan of after comming in power of attack south korea and having them and usa destroy the japanese nation.
The group never reached even 3 digits because they kept having purges in the training camps

There werent any warcrimes. It was just made up, like they made up stuff about the Germans. To justify the destruction of said nations. The real reason was because they want against world jewry.

>>213538994 (OP)
fires on the plain, harp of burma, merry xmas mr lawrence

>>213548375
>The left wing in japan does not regret the war, it sees it as the great liberation war of asia.
Not really

>>213548690
I should have specified during the cold war
The communist party actally had a mini schizm as some members left over not being allowed to wave the wartime flag in rock concerts

>>213538994 (OP)
killing australians is not a war crime

Diary of Yunbogi (1965) is about Japan's occupation of Korea rather than war specifically but it's highly critical of it

>>213545929
not exactly that but related but i remember there being a light novel/manga that had the main character using one of the swords that was used in the contest as his main weapon, it was gonna get an anime adaptation but got canceled because the author called chinese people bug people on twitter

>>213540162
Every Pickup Artist in the world will tell you that money matters more than literally anything

>>213540162
do you understand how money and prostitutes work? what a retarded comment. leave the house once in a while jfc

>>213538994 (OP)
As a kid, I remember flipping through the channels, and stopping on one that took place in a Japanese POW camp, and there's a scene where they've got a bunch of American's lined up kneeling, and the Japanese guy in charge walks down the line with a pistol and executes them one-by-one.

No clue what it was called, or even when specifically I watched it, just a vague memory of that scene.

>>213539137
Amerimutts are a danger to humanity

The human condition trilogy

The first part is about an idealist pacifist from university employed at a work camp, where he believes the best results will be achieved by respecting thr Chinese prisoners, which stands in contrast with the other camp leaders who inflict corporal punishment on the prisoners

Pt 2 and 3 are also really good, sort of an evaluation of an idealist/pacifist being swept up in the atrocities of war

>>213539213
Since 1955 nationalist conservatives have been continuously in power in Japan apart from 1993-1996 and 2009-2012. The LDP is also the same party that has had multiple of its prime ministers visiting the controversial Yasukuni Shrine that is a memorial site that continues to commemorate Japanese war criminals from WW2. A place that Emperor Hirohito refused to visit for like the last thirty years of his life.

Paul Schrader’s Yukio Mishima biopic has never had an official release in Japan due to how much it triggers the ultranationalists.

You really think it would be easy to make a major production about Japan’s war atrocities? There’s a good reason why at best you were allowed to make anti-war message films and just show the fascist side of the military and how it abused the troops and citizens during the war.

>>213539213
Japan doesn't want to apologize for warcrimes as they consider it shameful. They don't acknowledge the existence of korean comfort women either. When in Germany a statue was built by some korean activists there was a minor diplomatic incident when japanese ambassadors wanted it removed. There would be no market for a movie like this and I don't know if people working on IT would have a career Afterwards. The japanese populace had a severe victim complex after the war and still held Bushido ideals up. Like when forgotten soldiers were found in South East Asia like decades later people didn't question If it made sense but idealized the self sacrifice of the soldiers living alone fighting villagers. They aren't like Germany

>>213540234
Winning so much that they’ve basically had stagnant economy for nearly forty years

>>213539675
Germany. I could imagine France and UK today too. Italy probably

Why is everybody itt mentioning Germany as a counter-example? The most famous films about the Holocaust and the Eastern Front were made by Americans and Soviets. How many German movies about their war crimes are there? Their most famous WW2 film is from Hitler's perspective about his last days (Downfall)

>>213539125
>Minoru Matsui was born in 1930 in Kyoto, Japan, into a family steeped in Shinto and Buddhist traditions. A quiet, introspective man, Minoru worked as a librarian and had a deep passion for history and cinema, often spending evenings at small arthouse theaters in Tokyo. In 1956, at the age of 26, he attended a screening of Night and Fog, the seminal Holocaust documentary directed by Alain Resnais, at a film festival in Tokyo. The film’s stark, haunting portrayal of the Holocaust left Minoru shaken, stirring questions about humanity, suffering, and resilience.

>Over the following months, Minoru began researching Judaism. He visited the small Jewish community center in Tokyo, where he met Rabbi David Cohen, an American expatriate who had settled in Japan. Rabbi Cohen introduced Minoru to Jewish texts, starting with the Torah and writings on Jewish history. Minoru was drawn to the emphasis on ethical living, communal responsibility, and the covenantal relationship with God, which resonated with his own sense of duty and introspection. The story of the Jewish people’s survival through exile and persecution mirrored, in his mind, Japan’s own recovery from the devastation of World War II.

So honourable
Such samurai
Me rape infant for glorious Nippon
Much honour in rape of infant child
Now use same infant for bayonet practice
SAMURAI DESU
japs were the original soulless bugmen.

>>213551638
Zone of Interest
The Captain
Stalingrad

That’s just few films that depict Germany’s war crimes

>>213548722
Every party has idiots in it and the JCP has a solid track record when it comes to policy and goals.

>>213538994 (OP)
>Are there any Japanese movies about their war crimes in Asia?
Russia and the allies committed more war crimes in ww2 than Japan or Germany did thats why

Russians raped people in concentration camps
Russians committed the Katyn massacre against Polish people
Allies bombed dresden and causes the bengal famine in india killing millions
Russians set back europe 100s of years by specifically murdering anti communist and anti russian activitists all across europe

>>213538994 (OP)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Devils
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fires_on_the_Plain_(2014_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sea_and_Poison_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_Naked_Army_Marches_On

>>213551638
>I don't watch German movies therefore they don't exist
Tells more about the rest of the world. Anti WW2 Media doesn't depict the atrocities though as they don't want to rely on voyeurism and jews wouldn't want to see non jews touch the topic in an insensitive way. German war films are always anti war films about Germans getting their asses kicked, WW2 child soldiers or people fleeing from Deportation. We had films Like "among wolves" (didn't care to look If it is the english Titel) about socialist concentration camp inmates. Films about post war legal action against war criminals (or the lack of Action taken) or artsy psycholgical stuff about the wife of a camp leader living in a house near the camp not seeing anything but sensing it. German guilt is always a topic but not that on the nose like in movies that depict atrocities to make the point that the Antagonist is the evil Guy in the movie

>>213538994 (OP)
th'fuck you mean, "war crimes?"

>>213551733
>Minoru had a deep passion for history and cinema
wtf he's literally me

>>213551842
nigger you still have to learn that there are different shades of bad. and allied warcrimes like dresden and bengal/iran famine were still nowhere near as bad as what was going on in ukraine in 1942.

dropping bombs on enemy cities and mismanaging crops and causing a famine is not on the same level of evil as the methodical and callous abduction and murder of millions of civilians with poison gas

>>213551585
>Italy probably
No lol

>>213551733
>Japan invades all of Asia and murders millions
>gets bombed in retaliation
>hory shittu, we ale just rike jews

The fuck? Nobodies mentioned dead to rights?

>>213552652
It's fake

>>213552652
reminder that the atomic bombs were just a show of force to not let 4 billion dollars of R&D cost go to waste, Japan would've capitulated regardless because the soviet invasion of manchuria ruined their last gamble of coming to a negotiated settlement with the allies via soviet brokerage