Editing War film (section)

=== Japanese ===
{{See also|#Animated||Category:Japanese war films}}

Japanese directors have made popular films such as ''[[Submarine I-57 Will Not Surrender]]'' (1959), ''[[Battle of Okinawa (film)|Battle of Okinawa]]'' (1971) and ''[[Japan's Longest Day]]'' (1967) from a Japanese perspective.{{sfn|Tam|Tsu|Wilson|2014|p=108, ''passim''}} These "generally fail to explain the cause of the war".<ref name=USNI-Japanese>{{Cite web |last1=USNI Staff |title=Through Japanese Eyes: World War II in Japanese Cinema |url=http://news.usni.org/2014/04/14/japanese-eyes-world-war-ii-japanese-cinema|publisher=United States Naval Institute|access-date=8 March 2015|date=14 April 2014}}</ref> In the decades immediately after the Second World War, Japanese films often focused on human tragedy rather than combat, such as ''[[The Burmese Harp (1956 film)|The Burmese Harp]]'' (1956) and ''[[Fires on the Plain (1959 film)|Fires on the Plain]]'' (1959).<ref name=USNI-Japanese /> From the late 1990s, films started to take a positive view of the war and of Japanese actions. These nationalistic films, including ''[[Pride (1998 film)|Pride]]'' (1998), ''[[Merdeka 17805]]'' (2001), and ''[[The Truth about Nanjing]]'' (2007), have emphasized positive traits of the Japanese military and contended that the Japanese were victims of post-war vindictiveness and viciousness. Such films have, however, been subject to protest for [[historical revisionism|revisionism]].<ref name=USNI-Japanese /><ref>{{Cite book |last=High |first=Peter B.  |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6XiA9DOuvjAC&pg=PR26 |title=The Imperial Screen: Japanese Film Culture in the Fifteen Years' War, 1931–1945 |year=2003 |publisher=University of Wisconsin Press |series=Wisconsin Studies in Film |location=Madison |isbn=978-0-299-18130-7 |page=xxvi}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=Tensions of Empire: Japan and Southeast Asia in the Colonial and Postcolonial World |publisher=Ohio University Press |year=2003 |location=Athens, Ohio |page=273 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MqmnPrgeYLEC  |last=Goto |first=Ken'ichi |isbn=978-0-89680-231-5 }}</ref> ''[[The Eternal Zero]]'' (2013) narrates the tale of a [[Mitsubishi A6M Zero|Zero fighter]] pilot who is considered a coward by his comrades, as he returns alive from his missions. It broke the record takings for a Japanese live action film,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.filmbiz.asia/news/eternal-zero-tops-japan-bo-for-8th-week |title=Eternal Zero tops Japan B.O. for 8th week |author=Kevin Ma |date=February 13, 2014 |access-date=February 13, 2014 |work=Film Business Asia |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221122347/http://www.filmbiz.asia/news/eternal-zero-tops-japan-bo-for-8th-week |archive-date=2014-02-21 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and won the Golden Mulberry at the Udine Far East Film Festival,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://variety.com/2014/film/news/eternal-zero-wins-udine-audience-prize-1201171158/ |title=Japanese Pic 'Eternal Zero' Wins Italy's Udine Audience Prize |author=Mark Schilling |date=3 May 2014|access-date=12 March 2015 |work=Variety }}</ref> but was criticised for its nationalistic sympathy with [[kamikaze]] pilots.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last1=Lee |first1=Maggie |title=Film Review: 'The Eternal Zero' |url=https://variety.com/2014/film/reviews/film-review-japanese-hit-the-eternal-zero-1201155266/ |magazine=Variety |access-date=12 March 2015 |date=7 February 2014}}</ref>