Great flick, but...

Rating: 8/10 (3 February 2011)

Good HK kung fu movie. However, I was really surprised when at the end of the film, a text legend came on screen reading:
"April 15, 1945. Emperor Hirohito unconditionally surrendered. CHINA WON THE WAR..."
Really? Nationalism is all well and good, but let's be serious; that's like claiming France won in the European Theatre. I'm not saying that neither the French nor the Chinese fought valiantly against the Axis, I'm just saying that I'm pretty sure that those two fully-occupied countries were bailed out by Russia, the British Commonwealth countries and the US. Or maybe that's just propaganda. At any rate, it was a good film, I just thought I'd comment on how ridiculous that revisionist history is. I figured a HK flick wouldn't be affected by that stuff, but perhaps Beijing is more influential in HK films than I thought...