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Yasukuni

Yasukuni

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 18, 2008

Runtime

2h 3m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

60%

Original Title

靖国

Production Companies

Beijing Youth Film Studio, Dragon Films

Director

Li Ying

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.