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
00:05:34 the Japanese were being taught that their Emperor
00:07:23 but back then the world was under the control of the West
00:09:23 was now isolated once more from the western club.
00:10:56 It's called "self punishment".
00:13:00 like this westernised Japanese woman
00:15:58 Ironically, given that the Americans themselves
00:17:57 "On the night of December 14
00:19:05 and later smuggled out of China.
00:20:54 particularly during the fierce struggle in the Chinese countryside
00:23:07 they first searched for any valuables to take.
00:25:02 who committed rape or murder were ever prosecuted
00:26:26 before the Americans arrived to occupy their country at the end of the war.
00:28:25 that had ever been built in the history of the world.
00:29:55 I cannot believe they would form an intelligent fighting force
00:31:58 A formal treaty of alliance was signed between Nazi Germany
00:33:35 that we wouldn't be able to win against them once the war was prolonged.
00:35:24 We thought that Japanese just could not see well because all the pictures
00:37:13 These Japanese soldiers, with their country having pulled out
00:39:00 In other words, we were there for bayonet practice.
00:40:30 That night, when things were dark, I made my way down the nullah.
00:41:52 in the makeshift hospital at the Hong Kong Jockey Club.
00:44:46 Japanese forces disarmed the Prisoners of war