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Post by EXO on May 21, 2016 10:26:11 GMT 8
Someone sent me a " Hey, have you ever seen this?" email today, in which they drew my attention to a video they'd found. It was a little disappointing when I went to check it out, it was a real pisser actually, because it meant that he hadn't even found the film archives section of our website - which has been there for six years! There are seventeen video features. Have you ever been there? Here's the link:
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Post by Karl Welteke on May 23, 2016 11:10:46 GMT 8
Japanese Devils, Japanese Documentary This URL was sent to me by Federico Baldassarre (see image W813 below) who has been the webmaster of the Battling Bastards of Bataan for many years. Thank you Fred! I never heard of this video, I started watching it and I watched all of it to the very end, it is 2 hours and 43 minutes long. It is fascinating! It is interviews of 14 Imperial Japanese soldiers who ended up as POWs in the Soviet Union and then in Red China. They were released to Japan in 1956, some Japanese made a documentary by interviewing them and all of them tell a brutal story of themself as Japanese occupation troops. It is a controversial film and look at this short description of the film in this Wikipedia URL: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Devils It has a German angle to it because it says this in the above URL: “The film did not gain any traction until it was entered into the Berlin Film Festival”. And here are my 5 cents of opinion (based on my German background) that militarism, extreme nationalism and extreme ideology leads to this kind of inhumanity. W813 this is the screenshot of what Fred sent me! This is the YouTube URL for this Japanese Documentary, Japanese Devils. It really fascinated me to hear all this testimony of brutality and inhumanity from Japanese Veterans: W814 is just another screenshot of the video Japanese Devils
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Post by cbuehler on May 23, 2016 23:12:29 GMT 8
This is fascinating and the first I have heard of this documentary. One of my favorite recommendations is the movie "The Emperor's naked army marches on", a documentary about the famous late Okuzaki Kenzo who devoted his life to exposing the Army in ww2 and tracking down former members of his unit on New Guinea who engaged in cannibalism on their own men, he even attempted murder on his former commanding officer. All this in the 1980's! Actually, it is little known, but there were many incidents of former Japanese military men taking justice into their own hands and tracking down and injuring or murdering former NCOs or commanders after the war. The Japanese Army could be just as brutal to their own men as to the enemy, and many could not forgive this.
CB
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