Under the Flag of the Rising Sun
(1972)
Overview
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.
Director
Kinji Fukasaku
Writers
Norio Osada, Kinji Fukasaku, Kaneto Shindō, Shōji Yūki
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Sachiko Hidari
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watchman
⭐ 9/10December 25, 2013
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 miserable death. By the end of the story, you are invited to conclude that no one who felt the brunt of the war survived it; that in truth the Japanese…
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Status
Released
Original Language
JA
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