The Ants (2006)
- Original title
- 蟻の兵隊
- Directed by
- Kaoru Ikeya
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- Japan
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
An 80 year old Japanese WWII veteran campaigns to expose secret military orders that kept him and 2600 others in China after Japan surrendered. He travels to the Yasukuni shrine and then to China, where he meets a Chinese woman who was abused by Japanese soldiers and hears a story of evil and forgiveness.
confrontationalsoberpoignantcontemplativepersonalhistoricalunflinchingreflective
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