Innocents always pays the price.

Rating: 10/10 (2 January 2007)

Having lived through the 2nd world war in London and subsequently moved around the World, often as Master of some small vessel or the other, I'm not easily moved to emotion. However, this beautiful animation, somehow it had to be an animation, conveys the brutal reality of how we allow ourselves to be controlled by monstrous people. It lets you follow, almost as an unseen intruder into their plight and their brave suffering and spiralling decline. The pathos and poignancy being heightened by the knowledge that it not only happened to hundreds of children in Japan at the time but is still going on, all around the World today. So will it as long as there are dictators, politicians, rulers and military.