2banaviator wrote:
Best:
Tie between Letters from Iwo Jima and HBO's The Pacific series (sorry, I know that's not a film in the traditional sense, but it was superb IMHO)
Worst:
The Final Countdown 1980: USS Nimitz is thrown back in time to 1941 near Hawaii, just hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Of course.
Under seen:
Two Japanese films: Yamato (Otoko-tachi no Yamato, 2005) and The Eternal Zero (Eien no 0, 2013)
I am an American patriot but I recently saw the last half of Yamato. You see the Japanese, in detail, just getting massacred. It's not unlike the last stand at little big horn.
With that said, even today, the Japanese psyche has a hang up on what happened with the Yamato. The proof is in the recent live action Star Blazers movie.
For those not in the know, Star Blazers was an excellent science fiction cartoon of the late 1970's. Earth's oceans have been stolen by a race of aliens out to kill all the humans and remake Earth. The Japanese find the old Yamato and turn it into a space going battleship.
The live action movie is similar to the Star Wars movies. The visual effects are eye popping. There is good acting but the story isn't unlike The 47 Ronin. The movie is definitely worth seeing and can be found online for free. It is subtitled for those who don't speak Japanese (like me).