Disappointed

I was enjoying this for the first little while, but it verges too far and too often into anti-Westernism/Japanese nationalism for my taste. So much so that it almost seems like something that could have been produced in China (it actually very loosely reminds me of "Once Upon a Time in China").

I went into it with the expectation that there would be some interesting commentary of (or at least portrayal of) Japan's relationship with the Western world (considering that that is the historical context of the film), but it is actually very one-dimensional: "Westerners are our enemies who just want to colonize us." A bit tasteless in that regard.

Very clearly a Japanese movie made for Japanese people.

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