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Yasukuni (2009)

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  • Project Phase: Completed
  • Release Date: 2009-08-12 - NY and/or LA
  • Distributor(s): Film Forum
  • Film Genre(s): Documentary
  • Country: Japan
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When Japan’s Prime Minister Koizumi insisted that his visits to the Yasukuni shrine were a purely personal matter, he unleashed an international furor. Established in 1869, the shrine houses 2.5 million Japanese war dead including WWII “class A war criminals,” among them General Tojo and others sentenced to death at the Tokyo Trial (Japan’s Nuremberg). Visitors to Yasukuni include still-militant Japanese nationalists as well as outraged protesters from China, Taiwan, Korea, and Okinawa. Chinese filmmaker Li Ying doesn’t pull his punches. He includes archival footage of a “100-man beheading contest” between Japanese officers as well as a fascinating contemporary interview with a 90-year-old craftsman who continues to forge Yasukuni swords, used in these and other atrocities.

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