I would reccomend this film to any lovers of japanese anime as it has a healthy mix of everything, comedy, romance, action, sadness and a musical score that will. Macross Plus is ,in my opinion, the best of the Macross sequals easily outclassing Macross II. The 5.1 mix on the DVD is also excellent making you believe you are right in the film.
But after a long enough stream of these, you’d start to get the feeling that cumulatively the South had a blind spot over exactly what the war was about and were trying to sweep some things about it under the rug.There’s a reason why the people who mourn the firebombing of Dresden are mostly Nazis.Ian Buruma’s book The Wages of Guilt is an excellent comparative examination of how Germans and Japanese have remembered the war (the author is fluent in both languages) otaku should also check out his 1984 Behind the Mask, where he was writing about things like manga, Takarazuka, bishonen, and yakuza movies well before they became a hot topic in academia. Oh, and the Southern equivalent of Miyazaki writing a story about the guy who invented the slave collar because he wanted to create a thing of beauty.None of these would be wrong, exactly, or inaccurate. And stories about the lives of ordinary (non-slavekeeping, of course) people sewing clothes and repairing leaky roofs.
In more recent years The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service has used the atrocities in Nanking and of Unit 731 as background for stories. Barefoot Gen is often thought of as only a story about Hiroshima, but it’s also very clear-spoken about how Japan had been conducting itself. It may be the case that you indeed have to hunt for instances here and there in Japanese pop culture that acknowledge the victims of Japanese, rather than only Japanese as victims.
In its time, it was controversial, even in the country that had authorized it. Bruce Franklin has argued the Rambo films did a comparable thing, by making the American hero’s identity more like that of a Third World guerilla–i.e., like the Viet Cong).If we’ve gotten to the point where those who mourn the firebombing of Dresden are mostly Nazis, it might be because the generation of people who actually experienced the war is largely passed away now. More disturbing, perhaps, are works (even works I might like) such as Yamato, Deep Blue Fleet, and Jin-Roh, that to one extent or another create alternate WWIIs where Japan fought the Nazis…our allies, Goto, our allies (H. Stories about how Japanese suffered during the war are perhaps understandable after all, they did suffer (and many of the people who suffered hadn’t personally committed any crimes, let them occur, or looked the other way)…and of course, a movie, anime or manga is a commercial product, and its primary audience is going to be other Japanese.
That may hardly seem a convincing argument, but the only solution to it is to stop conducting policy via bomb. Which we did not give them.Instead of saying it wasn’t actually evil to burn the innocent and the guilty alike, I personally believe it would show more moral courage to say one committed evil because you believe it stopped greater evil. I have absolutely no doubt that the Holocaust, Germany’s occupation of the USSR, and Japan’s occupation of China show that the Axis powers would have had no qualms about doing the same to our cities, and worse, if they had the opportunity to do so.
It’s about a boy and his sister, whose parents are killed by falling debris from an air battle during an invasion of their country. (This is not to be confused with the Ridley Scott action movie also from 1989, which would make an absolutely amazing double feature)Sunao Katabuchi actually did write, storyboard, and direct something like this before: the side-story of Ace Combat 04. The movie that first came to my mind though was the 1989 live action Japanese movie Black Rain, which is more directly about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima – especially hibakusha – but has a similarly low-key approach. Even a hardcore tearjerker would’ve been easier to sell.Rossellini’s Paisà is a good comparison, and the Italian neo-realists definitely had their influence. Rather, it was the lack of even emotional, tragic spectacle that you guys mentioned.
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