"Yunagi no machi sakurano no kuni" is probably the best movie ever focused on Hiroshima and WWII tragedy. But it is too real and explicit for some American audiences—in another words, it is too offensive for them. Probably that is why I can't find the DVD with English subtitle. Because it is too offensive to the American public, it could cause a friction between two nations. The previous commentator has probably good intent, but he or she is too ignorant. Japan went to war because she could end up a colony where non-white people populate like the rest of Asia if she listened to US demand in the eve of WWII. So she made a choice to go to war to defend her sovereign and liberate the other Asian nations from the oppression of American and European colonists. But during her pass of the warfare and even before, the Japanese subjugated the Chinese and the Korean as the second class citizen while they sent lots of sympathy to the Jew and the Southeast Asians, including to Indians. This double standard caused tragedy and misunderstanding. Just like pro and con, Japan did right thing and also bad thing. We have been under the American's War Guilt information System—the US propaganda since the end of WWII. We have lots of "America Kabures"—Japanese blindly followers on US. Typically, the Japanese loves to talk about the US, but no other countries. Actually, they are afraid of US or very sensitive to what the US thinks about us. As a result, even in Hiroshima, although Americans are the ones dropped the Atomic Bomb, the survivors and the children of the survivors have never publicly condemned the US government or the American populace. It is hypocrisy. This movie clearly stated that those wished me to be dead and it took 13 years to kill me. It is obvious that those are the Americans. That is why this movie has significant impact on people who have good conscience. Again, this movie is made extremely well. I highly encourage you to distribute this movie DVD with English subtitle.
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