A brilliant piece of work...

Rating: Null/10 (17 September 1998)

I made the mistake of sitting down to watch this movie thinking it would be your basic anime flick, replete with scantily-clad women with hypertrophied hooters. Shows you what I knew. I spent the rest of the evening weeping about the cruelties of war, and all the innocent people who get winnowed out in the aftermath. My American education tells me we had God on our side, and whatever we did to the Japanese mainland was justified in the name of sovereignty. I'm not a politician or a general...I don't know. But the story of Setsuko and Seiji (sp?) caused me such grief inside. What is right, anymore? Is this right?