'unbroken' Star Miyavi Talks About Japanese Reaction To The Movie's Darkest Scenes

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'Unbroken' Star Miyavi Talks About Japanese Reaction to the Movie's Darkest Scenes

 

https://www.yahoo.com/movies/unbroken-japan-miyavi-controversy-more-than-two-104918821282.html

 

More than two weeks before its release, Angelina Jolie’s World War II drama Unbroken is already the focus of political sniping and debate.

 

The film tells the remarkable true story of Louis Zamperini, a former Olympian who survived 47 days at sea — and four years in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp — after his bomber goes down over the Pacific Ocean. The torture he endured at the hands of a young Japanese officer known as The Bird was brutal; it included regular canings, extreme starvation, and, at one point, being punched in the face 200 times by fellow POWs forced to take part in the beating.

 

Miyavi Ishihara, the Japanese rock star who plays The Bird in Unbroken, told Yahoo Movies that he was reluctant to play the role until speaking with Jolie about her intentions.

 

"I wasn’t sure I was going to do this until I met Angie in Tokyo," he recalls. "She said she wanted to make something meaningful and it could be a bridge between America, Japan and other countries in conflict. This story could happen anywhere.

 

"We didn’t want to have a caricature of a typical villain who is one-dimensional," the actor added. "We wanted more depth, more sensitivity."

 

Japanese audiences have yet to see the film, but that hasn’t stopped conservative nationalist groups from objecting to its release and protesting its content.

 

Hiromichi Moteki, of the Japanese nationalist group Society for the Dissemination of Historical Fact, calls some of the most extreme claims of Laura Hillenbrand’s 2010 book about Zamperini — and by extension the film — “pure fabrication.â€

 

"If there is no verification of the things he said, then anyone can make such claims," Moteki told the UK’s Telegraph. â€This movie has no credibility and is immoral.â€

 

Hillenbrand’s book describes, among other things, treatment that included prisoners being “beaten, burned, stabbed or clubbed to death, shot, beheaded, killed during medical experiments or eaten alive in ritual acts of cannibalism.â€

 

Jolie’s film, which will open nationwide on Christmas Day, includes plenty depictions of brutality but has no scenes of medical experimentation, cannibalism, or beheadings...