Often storytellers, such as filmmakers, will take liberties with history and facts to make a tale or movie “more interesting”. In 1970 Directors Richard Fleischer, Toshio Masuda and Kinji Fukasaku decided that reality is better than fiction. They made a World War II film that tells the tale from both the American and Japanese perspectives. Roger Ebert may have found it “dull”, but I and 35 thousand IMDB voters appreciate the drama that history provides.
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