Under the Flag of the Rising Sun

Under the Flag of the Rising Sun
7.5

Under the Flag of the Rising Sun

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Directed by: Kinji Fukasaku

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A war widow determined to clear the name of her disgraced husband, who was court-martialed for desertion and executed. Official records have been destroyed, and the ministry that distributes benefits continues to deny her a pension. Twenty-six years after the war, she seeks out four survivors of her husband's garrison. Each tells a dramatically different story about her husband's conduct, but she is determined to learn the truth.

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  • watchman (Rated: 9)

    No big-budget battle picture, this is a small, intimate chamber of moral horrors. Fukasaku spares neither his characters nor his viewers to deliver a personal anti-war film that indicts an entire social system.

    People are tested to the breaking point, without meaning or goal except to escape a m...

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