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No ABC/CNN/CBS/Fox report in the US on this movie

posted 15 years ago by jesc-3
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Irish Chang was a Chinese American writer who wrote a book on this.

Of course, she died young.

I hope the powerful can respect diversity of opinions.

[–] sljones44 15 years ago

Of course not. When this film is done, it will lead to other , more interesting films that have the U.S. culpable in allowing the Japanese and other war criminals to escape Prosecution (Nazi's in particular)

Platoon 731-Biological Experimentation, The Merchants of Death (Rockefeller,I.G. Farben,Harriman,Fritz Thyssen, Prescott Bush) and a number of other things could be brought into the argument.

They'll always have Speilberg's Saving Private Ryan and tributes to the WW2 veterans, but events like Nanjing will be curiously missed.

A Plague upon Humanity: The Hidden History of Japan's Biological Warfare Program by Daniel Barenblatt is another compelling insight into the Japanese Story.

[–] modestgod 15 years ago

The movie just came out and a general big budget , so i'd give it some time before jumping in the stereotypical "America Sucks Speech".

A full dvdrip has just hit the web too , so that'll circulate.

[–] bitter_sweet_devil 15 years ago

maybe it's the way you put it - she died young, yes, but she committed suicide. like Romeo Dallaire's editor for his book "Shake Hands With the Devil".

[–] murad23 9 years ago

US is culpable if Japan's actions in China?

could you be more ignorant? The US LED the diplomatic, international public opinion and economic sanctions against Japan for it invasion and its millions of atrocities in China.

And did you read the books you cited? I doubt it. it shows the US hunted and handed over Platoon 731 officers.

It was actually communist Chinese who kept and used their research!

As far as your title, in fact this film got plenty of press notice., you are posting (from china?) BEFORE it was released in the US.

Take your propaganda and ignorance elsewhere

[–] sic_one11 11 years ago

There's a Canadian movie called "Shake Hands with the Devil" about the Rwandan genocide. It was considered a big-budget movie (by Canadian standards), won a ton of awards and got great critical reviews.

In the States? Nothing. Not a word.

It's not because America doesn't care (afterall, Americans did like the movie Hotel Rwanda, which was produced by an American company, and also about the Rwandan genocide).

It's marketing and distribution. That's all there is to it.

If an American movie theatre company doesn't pick it up, then that means there was no marketing plan to bring hype to it. And it also means distributer's didn't make any deals with any theatres to release the film.

I don't blame anyone for this. The film had a small $12 million budget, and no big names producing it.

And so lots of great foreign films (like the great Shake Hands with the Devil) will be completely missed and forgotten by American audiences. Not because they won't "like" the movie. But because they had no marketing and no distribution deal.

And the only way to manufacture a blockbuster hit is to have a ton of money on your side.

But sometimes that doesn't even help.

Look at "Cloud Atlas". $100 million budget German film.

Completely utterly destroyed and ignored in American theatres.

So don't take it personally.

[–] MisterMovieGuy 9 years ago

This is something I often find very upsetting, but the good news is that in the age of the internet, it has never been easier for cinephiles/general film lovers to discover and track down these obscure films. It also helps to have cheap services like Netflix which are often filled with these hidden gems you might not have found otherwise (ex. I found City of Life and Death on Netflix)

IMDB and the community here is another incredible tool I use regularly to discover new films. :)