Horror in the East: Japan and the Atrocities of World War II
2000 · 95 MIN · IMDB 7.7 · 241 VOTES
Overview
Two-part documentary on Japan at war, examining the Japanese treatment of Allied prisoners of war. Turning Against the West Using Japanese archive footage and interviews with both prisoners and their guards, this film investigates why, having treated their POW's comparatively well during World War I, their attitudes had altered so dramatically by World War II Death Before Surrender Conclusion of a two-part documentary on Japan at war, examining why, when the Second World War turned against Japan, so many Japanese soldiers chose death rather than surrender. Archive footage and interviews with veterans form a comprehensive portrait of a nation in crisis, revealing how Japan's inability to surrender would have terrible consequences for all the countries touched by the war in the East
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00:00:59 The living conditions were quite terrible for the prisoners.
00:03:04 to stay on in Japan after their release
00:05:37 living here in a 280 acre park in central Tokyo
00:07:26 and a peaceful solution seemed impossible.
00:09:31 and a growing economic depression at home
00:11:06 So we, all of us recruits
00:13:48 a policy that was popular not just with the army
00:16:21 that any general bombing of an extensive area
00:18:08 "We Europeans are all paralysed with horror.
00:19:26 had been bayoneted by Japanese soldiers because she tried to resist being raped.
00:21:26 Japanese soldiers didn't just burn the Chinese
00:23:32 But this time she was not killed and was carried to the next base camp.
00:25:37 Why? Why didn't you have any sense of guilt or shame?
00:27:01 lay the British colony of Hong Kong.
00:29:14 Anthony Hewitt sent his report on the strength
00:30:39 but also not a very intelligent group of people.
00:32:47 - 'Asia for the Asians' was the slogan.
00:34:29 When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour
00:36:06 First of all, we thought they were Americans.
00:38:08 we could see that we were surrounded by Japanese.
00:39:56 Blood was coming out of my mouth
00:41:15 knocking them down with rifle buts
00:43:16 the Japanese did go on to mistreat virtually all those
350:00:00 would eventually fall