Yasukuni (movie)
靖国- User score: 6
- Production country: Japan
- Producer: Li Ying
- Production companies: Beijing Youth Film Studio, Dragon Films
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 1/18/2008
- Run time: 123 min.
Movie description
The film looks at the history of Yasukuni Shrine in Chiyoda, Tokyo, where more than 2 million of Japan's war dead are enshrined. More than 1,000 of them are war criminals convicted at the 1946–48 Tokyo tribunal, including 14 Class-A war criminals, Hideki Tōjō among them. The film shows not only the widely reported political incidents associated with the shrine, but also takes an in-depth look at the shrine's sword-making tradition, the Yasukuni sword being the film's underlying motif.
