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About the Japanese fighter pilot ghost


Does he move on at the end? He seems like the most interesting character in the movie, judging from the trailer of course.

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The Japanese pilot is in the movie solely because this film is made by Sony Pictures, a Japanese company now pretending to be a Hollywood company.

The pilot is one of the Kamikaze pilots from World War II, whose method was to crash into American targets, eg) buildings, planes, carriers, like suicide bombers of today. In short, it's like having a European movie in which a Nazi soldier is playing a ghost helping out two young lovers. Would a European or Hollywood watch a movie like that?

The Japs have no shame, and Americans are suckers.

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lol glad you still carry your hate around. Now the Imperial Japanese did some evil things during the war,
but the actions you yourself listed the Kamikaze pilots as engaging in during the war arent exactly 'bad' per se, as after all they are (according to what you wrote) only targeting military targets.

In fact I think they only targeted ships mostly, I never heard of em crashing into another plane (which seems extremely difficult).

Believe it or not, this occurs in war. Though The Japanese way of doing it was just...more demanding due to huge supply shortages, and an unwillingness to surrender, the fact remains they were only trying to kill the enemy that was trying to kill them.

'Suicide bombers of today' almost exclusively target easier, weaker civilian or political targets to instill fear, doubt and hatred. And stupidity.

Sony Pictures is mostly American based and run, and they only care about making money like all companies.

edit: ok I did find out that one Kamikaze attack did take out a hospital ship, but this only occurred once during the war (AND after a Japanese civilian ship was accidently attacked beforehand).

Note the unscathed USS Solace at pearl harbor...

Anyway I could research more, but theres a limit to my insanity...

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Absolutely agree with appletree. If the character was a Nazi instead, not only would no one watch it, HollyJew probably wouldn't even greenlight the film. The typical whitewashing of Japanese war crimes and atrocities in Hollywood films have made many Americans completely forget the war in the Pacific. Nazis = bad. The Japanese = honorable, brave, misunderstood soldiers.

And to the poster who said Kamikaze pilots weren't "bad per se." REALLY?! LOL! Kamikaze pilots weren't bad, huh? But I bet most Americans would criticize Muslim suicide bombers. It's sad how backwards and moronic society has become.

Let's not forget that Japan has never fully admitted or atoned for their actions during the War. Even their own history books have pretty much written that part of history out.

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You sound just like another goddamn US right-wing nutjob. Maybe you should read my argument.

The other guy was equating kamikaze pilots to suicide bombers. Basically he considered their actions to be evil. I argued that their actions were not completely comparable to suicide bombers, because they overwhelmingly targeted military targets DURING A WAR. Is this 'evil' or bad, if you look at it objectively (which is of course impossible for many Americans)?

A war by the way where the USA was bombing (incl. firebombing) the *beep* outta the entirety of Japan, despite the fact that they themselves criticised this sort of behaviour before entering the war. Was this bad, or justified at the time? The Japs deserved it right?

I didn't argue anything else about the conduct of the Japanese during WWII, in fact I mentioned their brutality.

Yes it is sad how backwards and moronic society has become.

At any rate if you two hate Japan so much for their actions in WWII and their behaviour after, you will be happy to hear that China and many Chinese hates Japan even more then you for the same reasons, so you may get revenge by proxy in the future.

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Yeah I thought he was the most interesting character too, partly because he's the only original aspect in this film that doesn't seem to be a rip-off of H&M. It seems weird that he speaks almost fluent English (I'm suprised Ryo Kase's English is quite good) but maybe in this film's universe ghosts develop language skills magically? I mean logically a Japanese from the 1940s would have little to no English skills, so yeah.

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@autumnsoliloquy, he may have died in the forties, but he apparently stuck around for a while. It would have been more confusing if Enoch suddenly knew how to read Japanese.

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I'll accept that. I guess learning doesn't stop after death, eh?

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Yeah I thought he was the most interesting character too, partly because he's the only original aspect in this film that doesn't seem to be a rip-off of H&M.


My thoughts exactly...

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There is a way he could've been fluent in English and it actually makes his backstory even more tragic. Up to 1944, Japanese college students could postpone their military service until they reached 26 years of age. From 1944 until the end of the war, however, college students (the vast majority from the upper classes and fluent in a language other than Japanese) were forced to enlist, many of them as kamikaze pilots.

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The Kamikaze cannot be compared to the suicide bombers.

War - not war.

Military targets - civilian targets.

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