Not every Japanese army was the "Kamikaze Suicide Squad" who shouted "Long live the Japanese Emperor" in high spirits when they took off with only enough fuel to take off and crashed into the enemy warships. Many of them were also the second-class soldiers who were recruited to the country and complained. Why eat diluted rice porridge, stay in a dimly lit cave, and have a petite wife and a young husband who are pregnant for several months running a bakery family business? Why bear the heart to leave the warm and stable family life that normal people should have ? The country's policy of recruiting soldiers is to dismantle the family's soul-calling banners. A recruitment document for recruiting into the army is not enough to make the baker's heart be ruthless. However, a representative of the women's group said, "My husband and son also went to the battlefield." , can he refuse the emperor's patriotic sentiments of recruiting samurai to fight the enemy and donate for the country? No, as a father and husband, he said to the child who was still soaked in amniotic fluid in the arms of his weeping wife: "I will Come back to see you." It was a promise from my father. The military police going to the front line to fight is a pretense of perfunctory country. No matter what, they have to survive, even pretending to have diarrhea, holding a white towel, surrendering to the US military camp, and abandoning the dignity of the samurai. When the comrade who gave up the country one step earlier was invited to return to the country as a guest, how can the belief that if there is a country, a home is comparable to a mother who raised adults in her hometown? Defeat, a wry smile, and many honors and disgrace, along with personally experiencing the cold-blooded killing with strict military discipline, abandoning it on the sulphurous battlefield where the quicksand is billowing.
I like "Iwo Jima Letters" more than "Flags of War". The first song explains the poor second-class citizens of the Indians who can only live at the feet of their masters despite their achievements in the Second World War. United States People and Indians feel the same, and I believe it will have a higher level of feeling than me, an Asian. The sequel "Iwo Jima Letters" looks at the Second World War from the standpoint of the Japanese. The director collects the letters buried in the soil of the mine builder's command that could not be sent. With a unique point of view, he analyzes the time when the commander, Tadashi Auribayashi mental state.
The illustration of the family letter depicts simple brushstrokes of caring for his wife and beloved children, and hundreds of letters describing the support of the family. There is no mention of the country's desperation to give up sending more troops, run out of rations, and dig out insects for food. The letter was an expression of my father's feelings, he did not abandon the country, the emperor wanted his subordinates to die for the country, the commander still called the rest of the people together, and said that the next generation would cherish the Yamato spirit of the death of the ancestors, take the rest of the breath, lead the soldiers, fight to the last soldier.
Will the Japanese army brutally kill prisoners? Not necessarily. In the 1932 Olympic Games held in the United States, Japanese Lin won the equestrian gold medal. He ordered his subordinates to treat American prisoners of war. , is also to tell the feelings of missing family members. If Japan and the United States were not involved in this war dominated by the greedy beliefs of those in power, Japan and the United States could become friendly countries, then Chief Subayashi did not need to receive a pistol from an American friend to show his commitment to national interests, even in the Meeting on the battlefield, without reciting the love of giving a gun, pulling the trigger, and making a stand for the embarrassment of killing a friend.
The corpse cannonballs will one day vanish into nothing. A large number of family letters are written with heart and love, because the family affection that has been buried in the soil for a long time, when unearthed, is the love for the ruthless war in the world.
Patrick Chan on May 27, 2007
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