Pearl Harbour and Japanese war films

[drainer@mpinet.net]

   The film presents a clearly one-sided story, and illustrates how "easy"
it was for the Japanese military to bomb Pearl Harbor. It also seems to
highlight their naivete ("I fear we have waken a sleeping giant") on pulling
the third wave of attacks. It is out of context historically, and also fails
to mention that the attack was led by perhaps the greatest modern naval
strategist.
   Of course, viewers will probably take this as the truth. (350 planes were
used. There are *many* modern countries that do not have that amount of
planes in their fleet!)

   It was a love story anyway... It didn't have much to do with Pearl
Harbor...


-df

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gavin Rees" <garees at gol.com>
To: <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 1:52 PM
Subject: Pearl Harbour and Japanese war films


>
> Hello,
>
> There was an interesting article in the Guardian in the UK written by the
> writer Ian Buruma. In it he notes how the film's indifference to the enemy
> echoes strangely the way that most of Japan's Second World War propaganda
> films had very little to say about the enemy, but rather concentrated on
> finding soldiers who could be lauded as role models.
>

> > Gavin