Godzilla minus Zero teaser

[Umbran]

Fair, though I was struck by how the climax, in particular, was framed as a collective military action and a chance for redemption, and some of the rhetoric used in the filmed echoed that of the Japanese Far Right...and that's as far as I can safely go with that.

Fair. I don't follow current Japanese politics, so I would miss that.

 

[jian]

I had issues with Minus One for exactly these reasons. Specifically, I think it promotes the problematic ideology that the Japanese military were victims of WW2, when militarism was one of the main drivers of the Pacific theatre. I don't want to debate the pros and cons of that position as it will get into politics, but in terms of the film's themes, it felt disquieting to me, given the Japanese military's tradition of minimizing its own actions during WW2.

Yeah, it’s a major issue in Japanese media - even something anti-war like Grave of the Fireflies leans into it, or at least the idea that WW2 was something that happened to Japan or was done to it externally rather than something in which the country was an active participant and initiator.