I disagree with all the reviewers ! an unnecessary pain

Rating: 7/10 (13 December 2013)

Yes you'll suffer you'll cry. How can you not. But really, honestly, was it needed? was there anything you didn't know? that people die in wartime? that children lose their parents and will likely get the most horrible of fates? There is no hope whatsoever in this movie, but that's not the point, there is also not much you can take away, if not that "love alone wont suffice", had anyone had doubts on that. If you have a 4-5 yo or have had it recently, you might find yourself wrenching in pain, as i did tonight. .. and you might have wished you had spared yourself that. The rest is a look at Japanese society 50 60 years ago, with good and bads not dissimilar to the rest of the world,