Pride (1998)

Few films made in Japan have created such international outrage as Shunya Ito's Pride -- an affectionate biopic on that country's most notorious prime minister, Hideki Tojo, who was hanged in 1948 during the Tokyo trials for war crimes. Funded by renown ultra right-wing investors, this film struck many in China and Korea -- two countries on the receiving end of much of Japanese war crimes -- as close to a deliberate provocation, especially since Japan has yet to officially come clean about such wartime atrocities as the Rape of Nanking or the murderous Unit 731. Instead of the incarnation of evil that U.S. propaganda portrayed him as, Tojo, played by Masahiko Tsugawa, is presented as being a brilliant leader, a passionate nationalist, and a loving family man. His goal was not the subjection of Asia under a Japanese empire, but to cast off the yolk of Western colonialism. American prosecutor Joseph Keenan (Scott Wilson) is seen as shrill, ignorant, and scheming, while Indian judge Radhabinod Pal as the sole dissenting jurist is the film's only non-Japanese hero. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide

Amazon.ca: Pride: DVD: Shunya Ito,Ronny Cox,Masahiko Tsugawa,Scott Wilson,Ayumi Ishida,Anupam Kher,Suresh Oberoi,Eiji Okuda,Naho Toda,Gitan Otsuru

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Ha, boy if this film could not be the farthest from the truth. That is akin to saying that Dr. Josef Mengele, was a friend of the Jewish captors at the Concentration Camps, and that he really intended no harm in his sick medical experiances.

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Lost are only those, who abandon themselves) Hans-Ulrich Rudel.

Are you quoting David Irving, Carl?

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Hi Kai, who is David Irving?

No quoting anyone. I thought that merely trying to compare the text posted about that film on Tojo (and the story therin) was like saying that Mengele loved the Jewish peoples that he mistreated and murdered. That is all that I meant by my posting-nothing hidden or held back.

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Lost are only those, who abandon themselves) Hans-Ulrich Rudel.