Films Japanese right-wingers have given 1-star ratings without having seen them
by th-kyhn | created - 15 Feb 2021 | updated - 13 Mar 2021 | PublicFilms Japanese right-wingers have given 1-star ratings without having seen them, typically because they portray WWII-related issues in a non-denialist manner.
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1. Man Behind the Sun (1988)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama, History, Horror
Japanese troops round up Chinese and Russian prisoners of war and take them to unit 731, where they're horribly tortured and experimented on to test new biological weapons.
Director: Tun-Fei Mou | Stars: Gang Wang, Dai Yao Wu, Runshen Wang, Zhe Quan
Votes: 7,269
2. Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue (2019)
120 min | Documentary, History
A Japanese-American director digs deep into the controversial 'comfort women' issue to settle the debate on whether the women were paid prostitutes or sex slaves, and reveals the ... See full summary »
Director: Miki Dezaki | Stars: Kent Gilbert, Kase Hideaki, Koichi Nakano, Yoshiko Sakurai
Votes: 178
3. Riben guizi (2001)
160 min | Documentary, War
A documentary recording the testimony of fourteen former Japanese soldiers as they recount atrocities and war crimes committed during the Second World War, including the infamous Unit 731 ... See full summary »
Director: Minoru Matsui | Stars: Yoshio Tsuchiya, Hakudo Nagatomi, Yoshio Shinozuka, Taisuke Funyu
Votes: 146
4. Unit 731 (2015)
60 min | Documentary
Unit 731 explores a side of WWII history that is largely unknown to the Western World. Documenting the development of WWII from the perspective of the Far East Front, the story of the gruesome human research center, UNIT 731, is revealed.
Director: Chris D. Nebe | Stars: Louis Fantasia, Chris D. Nebe
Votes: 83
5. Maruta 2: Laboratory of the Devil (1992)
96 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
In the spring of 1935, Japan established a secret base, Unit 731 in Manchuria, where many innocent Chinese, Korean and Mongolian people were killed in grotesque experiments. An idealistic ... See full summary »
Director: Godfrey Ho | Stars: Yishou Jiang, Yuen-Ching Leung, Xingqiang Li, Dingyao Liu
Votes: 664
6. Unit 731: Nightmare in Manchuria (1998 TV Movie)
Documentary, War
Features the terrible story behind WWII "Unit 731", a japanese military base located in the puppet state of Manchuria, China.
Votes: 102
7. In the Name of the Emperor (1998)
50 min | Documentary, War
A matter-of-fact documentary of the massacre of over 300,000 Chinese civilians by the Japanese in the so-called 'Rape of Nanjing' in 1937. In the name of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, the ... See full summary »
Directors: Christine Choy, Nancy Tong | Stars: Robin Brentano, Ted Hannon, Matthew Myers, Lamar Sanders
Votes: 30
8. The Sun (2005)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, History
Third part in Aleksandr Sokurov's quadrilogy of Power, following Moloch (1999) and Taurus (2001), focuses on Japanese Emperor Hirohito and Japan's defeat in World War II when he is finally confronted by General Douglas MacArthur who offers him to accept a diplomatic defeat for survival.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Issei Ogata, Robert Dawson, Kaori Momoi, Shirô Sano
Votes: 2,970 | Gross: $0.08M
9. Nanking (2007)
R | 88 min | Biography, History, War
Through readings of historical account by actors and the testimony of survivors, the events of the Nanjing Massacre are recounted.
Directors: Bill Guttentag, Dan Sturman | Stars: Hugo Armstrong, Rosalind Chao, Stephen Dorff, John Getz
Votes: 3,586 | Gross: $0.16M
10. Horror in the East (2000 TV Movie)
PG | Documentary, War
An examination of atrocities and depredations committed by Imperial Japanese military forces, from 1931 to 1945.
Stars: Edward Herrmann, Samuel West
Votes: 230
11. Silent Shame (2010)
87 min | Documentary, History, War
A Japanese-born filmmaker took seven years to peel back the cultured facade of her country, and uncovers its darkest secrets giving us a shocking and provocative look at Japan's inhumanity in war.
Director: Akiko Izumitani | Stars: Ren Hanami, Akiko Izumitani
Votes: 24
12. John Rabe (2009)
134 min | Biography, Drama, History
A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.
Director: Florian Gallenberger | Stars: Ulrich Tukur, Daniel Brühl, Steve Buscemi, Anne Consigny
Votes: 6,741 | Gross: $0.07M
13. Herstory (2018)
121 min | Drama
10 plaintiffs who suffered as comfort woman during World War II and their 13 lawyers stand in a courtroom in Japan. They have gone through 23 difficult trials from 1992 to 1998.
Director: Kyu-dong Min | Stars: Kim Hae-sook, Ye Soo-jung, Suk Mun, Lee Yong-nyeo
Votes: 268
14. A Resistance (I) (2019)
105 min | Drama
Since the Japanese occupation, Koreans fought for independence at home and abroad. Started on March 1, 1919, the national protest held at least 2 months. It was called the-March 1st ... See full summary »
Director: Min-ho Cho | Stars: Ko Ah-sung, Jeong Ha-dam, Ryu Kyung-Soo, Kim Nam-jin
Votes: 193
15. I Can Speak (2017)
119 min | Comedy, Drama
An elderly woman who constantly files complaints with the local office about the wrongs that she sees around her each day, forms an unlikely friendship with a junior civil service officer, who begins to teach her English.
Director: Hyun-seok Kim | Stars: Na Moon-hee, Lee Jehoon, Park Chul-min, Yeom Hye-ran
Votes: 2,310
16. The Cove (2009)
PG-13 | 92 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
Using state-of-the-art equipment, a group of activists, led by renowned dolphin trainer Ric O'Barry, infiltrate a cove near Taijii, Japan to expose both a shocking instance of animal abuse and a serious threat to human health.
Director: Louie Psihoyos | Stars: Richard O'Barry, Louie Psihoyos, Hardy Jones, Michael Illiff
Votes: 51,430 | Gross: $0.87M
17. Yasukuni (2007)
123 min | Documentary
Controversy abounds as Japanese officials honor the deceased at the legendary Yasukuni shrine, where swords used to kill Chinese soldiers were famously forged. Few know about the shrine's eerie past and the mysterious sword inside.
Director: Ying Li | Stars: Naoharu Kariya, Jun'ichirô Koizumi
Votes: 157
18. Unbroken (I) (2014)
PG-13 | 137 min | Action, Biography, Drama
After a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, Olympian Louis Zamperini spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he's caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.
Director: Angelina Jolie | Stars: Jack O'Connell, Miyavi, Domhnall Gleeson, Garrett Hedlund
Votes: 182,640 | Gross: $115.64M
19. Boys for Sale (2017)
76 min | Documentary
Interviews with the urisen boys of Shinjuku 2 chome. They answer questions about their experiences working in the sex trade including what drove them to it in the first place and why they ... See full summary »
Director: Itako
Votes: 24
20. The Apology (I) (2016)
Not Rated | 104 min | Documentary
The Apology explores the lives of former "comfort women", the more than 200,000 girls forced into sexual slavery during World War II. Today, they fight for reconciliation and justice as they struggle to make peace with the past.
Director: Tiffany Hsiung
Votes: 286
21. The Battleship Island (2017)
Not Rated | 132 min | Action, Drama, History
During the Japanese colonial era, roughly 400 Korean people, who were forced onto Battleship Island ("Hashima Island") to mine for coal, attempt to a dramatic escape.
Director: Ryu Seung-wan | Stars: Hwang Jung-min, So Ji-seob, Song Joong-ki, Lee Jung-hyun
Votes: 8,485
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