The Rape of Nanking (Disc 1 Side A). Unit 731, Sex Slaves & Comfort Women, Japanese War Time Atrocities, Hiroshima, and more (Disc 1, Side B).
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Movie Reviews of The Rape of Nanking (Disc 1 Side A). Unit 731, Sex Slaves & Comfort Women, Japanese War Time Atrocities, Hiroshima, and more (Disc 1, Side B).
Movie Review: A horrible but real memorandum of tragedy in human history
Summary: 5 Stars
This documentary showed nothing but the darkest side of human history. More horrible than Auschwitz Concentration Camp in efficiency, and larger in scale of genocide.
A permanent shame to all human species, but perticularly to Japanese education failure.
Movie Review: Important subject, BAD film
Summary: 1 Stars
This topic is an important one that needs to be brought to light, particularly considering the Japanese cover-up of such horrific atrocities. However, this film was BAD. The quality of the editing is grainy, and the voice over continually repeats the same phrases, often for shock value. The photographs and content are shocking enough without hearing over and over again "rape, torture, kill," in a monotone and unsympathetic voice.
Some of the old footage is good, but the film itself seems slightly exploitative and poorly produced.
Read the book. Don't waste your time on this film.
Movie Review: Review of "The Rape of Nanking"
Summary: 5 Stars
I teach a class on the Chinese revolution, 1911-1949. One of the topics I cover is Japan's invasion of China in 1937, which includes the atrocities committed in Nanking in December 1937. If the saying, "a picture is worth a thousand words is true," then it was not necessary for me to lecture on the event; all I needed to do was to show the video to my students. We were all numb after watching the video. It took a while for us to regain our composure before discussing this episode in China-Japan relations.Movie Review: Shocking!
Summary: 5 Stars
I was depressed for quite a while by the movie.
I am wondering how can Japanese deny it in front of all these evidences!
Movie Review: A good but not very good documentary on an Important Subject
Summary: 3 Stars
This is a reasonably good documentary on the War Crimes committed by the Imperial Japanese Empire in China during World War 2. When ignorant people complain that American World WAr 2 films made during the war were supposedly racist, what they do not realize is that compared to the reality, the cinematic Imperial Japanese are practically genteel. The reality was a savagery beyond belief. Worse than the Nazis. Comparable to the Communist Death Camps but far more widespread and "creative" on the part of the perpetrators. It would be good to report that this doc is superb but it is a tad ratty and clunky with footage being repeated and narration saying pretty much the same things again and again. If shortened by about 15 mins, the doc would be greatly improved. That said, it is still a watchable, harrowing and educational film with much historical footage that this old newsreel/documentary veteran had not seen before and covering a subject that all too many people know nothing about. So see it if you can. Show it to morons who get upset whenever John Wayne or Randolph Scott call an Imperial Japanese soldier a "Jap." They deserved far worse than that.