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: This is a perfect film.
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is perfect. It tells the real history.
I hope more people can watch it.
Frankly speaking, I don't like the japanese. Even today, they still refuse to apologize to Asian countries for its invasion.
Movie Review: Why Certain People Do Not Want You To Buy This Film
Summary: 5 Stars
OK: I'm biased. I know the producer. But here is what you don't know. This film is hosted by Google. Nearly 2000 independent websites have embedded this film in their website for the pleasure of their viewers, giving it a rank of 149 out of hundreds of thousands of film at Google. According to Google stats, this film is downloaded over 250,000 times a day!!! Over 50 articles have appeared in the Chinese media praising this film. It has been repeatedly shown to standing-room only audiences who are typically left in shock and tears. It is an emotionally powerful film. The editor at Sina.com reviewed this film and wrote that "the whole world should see this movie." An editor at World Journal wrote: "Powerful, shocking, thought provoking."
Nor is this film Chinese propaganda. The film-maker is not Chinese and he is not associated with any Chinese groups or the Chinese government. His last film was about Hitler, and CBS called it "mesmerizing."
So why the bad review from the person pretending to be from Hong Kong? Listen: The producers of this film have been threatened and harrassed. Certain people have put a lot of money and a lot of effort into trying to sabotage this film, including a rival film-maker, and this is because it is the best film out there. They have tried to destroy and sabotage this film, because it threatens them. They do not want you to know the truth. They do not want you to see a great film, the best on the subject.
This is a powerful film. One need not take my word for it. The published reviews and the stats from Google prove it. A quarter million people a day download this film. It is hosted by nearly 2000 independent websites.
Movie Review: Great footage, but HORRIBLE final product....
Summary: 1 Stars
I hope no one seriously doubts that what happened in Nanking was terrible in the extreme. There were too many survivors and witnesses who have recorded their stories (not to mention the fact that the Japanese themselves documented much of their campaign of destruction and death) to dispute whether or not "bad things" went down. It was horrific, and for most of us, the depth of the depravity exhibited by those soldiers must seem almost surreal.
Unfortunately, there ARE those who want to rewrite history to make it less disturbing, some who choose to quibble over minor statistics or semantics in describing those dark days -- not to mention those in Japan who would dispute that the event took place at all. Believe it or not, it's true -- some people actually suggest nothing happened at all.
Therefore, this story must be told. It MUST be.
Having said that, I must insist that THIS film is not the way to tell it. Really. This film is such an utter bit of propogandist rubbish, that I find myself at a loss for adjectives to describe how bad it is. Well, let's put it this way -- I'm moved to actually write this review, and I almost NEVER review things on Amazon. I'm serious -- this film was that bad.
The production is worse than amateurish -- the person who put it together clearly has almost no experience editing videos. Technically speaking, the "sins" are legion: using the same, gimmicky transitions over and over; the repeated use of the same footage, flipping it horizontally (left to right) to try to make it look like a different scene, or looping it backwards and fowards to make it last longer; showing peaceful scenes of people walking on a bridge, and then cutting abruptly to explosions in a field, absurdly trying to make it look like this was footage of actual bomb attacks; not to mention the constant and childish sound effects which had me grating my teeth in frustration. These are not one-time things I'm talking about -- no, the entire FILM consists of these exact kinds of edits and infantile "tricks"... Surely, all of that is annoying, and reason enough to dismiss this project as pathetically sophomoric and unworthy of wide distribution.
But what really makes me uncomfortable is that this is nothing more than sensational, voyeuristic, anti-Japanese propaganda.
YES, the Japanese (as a culture) need to be made to answer for and deal with their history in war (as do we all). YES, there is an element of Japanese culture which refuses to accept that what happened during the war (and in Nanking) was particularly wrong or even their fault. And YES, there are those in Japan who to this day seem utterly incapable of even beginning to comprehend the scope of the death and destruction that the Japanese Army wrought across China (and the rest of Asia). YES, yes, and yes again.
But THIS film, posing flimsily as some sort of "historical" piece or documentary ("shock-umentary" if you will), merely intends to tell you that "China was an innocent virgin ravaged by a barbaric Japan" -- and by the way, would you like to see some photos of naked, raped women? Or how about some people being stabbed or shot? Anyone up for zooming shots of dead children and babies?
Let me say, it is true that there are some important photos and footage in this film -- and in a similar sense that we need archives of the Holocaust to remember those horrors and thereby educate future generations, these images (both still and movies) need to be preserved and available to all. But to present that material in THIS pitiful film, couched in rhetoric that could have been written by Japan-hating Communist Party apparatchiks in Beijing, does no one any good. Further, it runs the very real risk of adding fuel to the "anti-Japan" fire (actually, the "anti-everyone-but-us" fire) which the Chinese government continues to nurture. I'm talking of the kind of thinking that, today, makes people say that "Japanese are a devil race" -- to give just one example. I wish it were merely laughable, but it's much worse than laughable -- it's ignorant and dangerous.
Look, this is an important topic. History must NOT forget the horrible things that happen in every war. The story of Nanking MUST be told.
But for the love of God, do NOT waste your time or money on this one. If I could give it negative stars, I would.
Movie Review: Sad & Shocking
Summary: 5 Stars
A documentary about a horrifying tragedy which really, truly, explains what happened and why it happened. As revealed in this film, the Japanese believed their emporer was a god. Since he was a god, it was his divine right to rule the world, including all the White races. The Japanese thought the Chinese were subhumans and they wanted to conquer China to exploit its resources, because they wanted to rule the world including America. Remember Pearl Harbor? Japanese school children were taught to hate, maim, and kill non-Japanese, and Japanese soldiers were ordered to rape and torture and kill innocent people. They were given killing practice in Nanking and taught to burn, stab, rape, and torture Chinese, Filipinos, Russians, and Americans. The Japanese even filmed and took pictures of their crimes, and these pictures are reproduced in this film. Unlike all other documentaries on this subject, this film provides a historical context and puts everything in perspective. Movie Review: A Historical Work of Art
Summary: 5 Stars
This film takes you back in time, making you feel as if you are right there. The images and pictures are graphic. A gore-fest, it is not. If you want buckets of blood, then look elsewhere. The sound track is truly wonderful, and the film-makers use the music and the pictures to really play with your emotions. I've also seen other documentaries about the Rape of Nanking, and this is truly the best. The film provides a historical context, explaining the mind-set of the Japanese and the events leading up to the massacre, and none of the other documentaries on this subject do that. The film also explains American government complicity in covering up the crimes of the Japanese, and no other film does that either. If you want to really understand the Rape of Nanking, what took place and why, this is the film for you.