So it’s a World War 2 movie told from the point of view we don’t get to see very often, the Japanese side. For the first time we get to see that the other side also has emotion, personality, and most importantly that they are not so keen about death, that it is not so easy to choose to die for one’s country even if you are Japanese.
I could not help thinking that I was watching Saving Private Ryan (before the credits came up) but from the other side. This is the only bad thing about the movie, whikch is very significant. It is American and tends to give American tributes to a foreign culture. It has that American way of telling a story (with its main characters, that you have seen a million times before in other formulaic American movies) that makes the movie less than what it could be.
Overall it is worth watching. It is gripping and you will connect with the characters even with the sub titles.
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