TOKYO: Angelina Jolie's "Unbroken" opened Saturday over a year after whatever remains of the world in Japan, where the primary character continues as a POW and where some have required a blacklist of the film.
There were worries that conservative fanatics might attempt to upset the opening. Be that as it may, the group at Theater Image Forum in Tokyo, a little theater that has some expertise in autonomous movies and documentaries, was quiet, seeming engaged in the film, wincing at the torment scenes and sympathizing with the saint, Louis Zamperini.
The distributor said in a statement that it decided to go ahead with the showing because various views on war should be expressed, and because it was unnatural for a movie about Japan not to be shown in the country.
A publicity official said the company had received some angry calls when it first announced the film’s showing in October. Other than that, nothing unusual happened, and the film is scheduled to be shown in other theaters throughout Japan.
"Unbroken" depends on the genuine story of Zamperini, an Olympic competitor who gets shot down in a US plane and makes due by gliding in the sea on an inflatable watercraft, however gets caught by the Japanese. He survives repulsive torment in World War II camps until Japan's annihilation in 1945.
A great part of the negative babble on online networking in Japan about "Unbroken," which still proceeds to some degree, claims that the motion picture is "hostile to Japanese."
Numerous taking offense at the film are shocked that the book on which the motion picture is based notice that Japanese warriors occupied with human flesh consumption, in spite of the fact that the film does not touch on the subject by any means. A few students of history say some Japanese officers did take part in human flesh consumption.
The anger over “Unbroken” has brewed despite Japan boasting a long list of directors who made distinguished anti-war movies, including Akira Kurosawa and Kihachi Okamoto. Nagisa Oshima’s “Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence,” starring David Bowie, has a plot similar to “Unbroken,” taking place in a POW camp.
But some in Japan have also had a hard time coming to terms with the country’s brutal past of colonizing Asian neighbors and the barbaric acts carried out by the Imperial Army, such as the Rape of Nanjing, which began in 1937 and left 300,000 Chinese dead.
"Unbroken" depends on the genuine story of Zamperini, an Olympic competitor who gets shot down in a US plane and makes due by gliding in the sea on an inflatable watercraft, however gets caught by the Japanese. He survives repulsive torment in World War II camps until Japan's annihilation in 1945.
A great part of the negative babble on online networking in Japan about "Unbroken," which still proceeds to some degree, claims that the motion picture is "hostile to Japanese."
Numerous taking offense at the film are shocked that the book on which the motion picture is based notice that Japanese warriors occupied with human flesh consumption, in spite of the fact that the film does not touch on the subject by any means. A few students of history say some Japanese officers did take part in human flesh consumption.
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