Under the Flag of the Rising Sun
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Heavy, kinetic, extreme war / drama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →A war widow determined to clear the name of her disgraced husband, who was court-martialed for desertion and executed. Official records have been destroyed, and the ministry that distributes benefits continues to deny her a pension. Twenty-six years after the war, she seeks out four survivors of her husband's garrison. Each tells a dramatically different story about her husband's conduct, but she is determined to learn the truth.
Our read · Under the Flag of the Rising Sun (1972) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive war · drama · anti-war entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
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