Flowers & Troops
The trailer for “Flowers & Troops,” a documentary about Japanese soldiers who stayed behind in Southeast Asia after the war ended (the audio is in Japanese, but 空 blog has provided an English translation of its contents):
１９４５，Aug 15: some Japanese soldiers who survived didn’t return to their home country.
These are notes from them after 60 years from the end of the war.
More soldiers died from sickness than being killed in the battle by being shot.
He is a poor guy, the Japanese army left him alone.
There were hellish battle fields in Asia.
There were dead bodies after dead bodies along the road: they were Japanese soldiers. Their heads being cut off.
190,000 Japanese soldiers were killed in Burma in the Pacific War.
I suffer. My heart suffers.
Why didn’t they return?
I could but I didn’t.
I decided to marry him after the war. I had to.
What is life? What is family? And what is War?
I always think of my life, and it is impossible for us to live in Japan and it is hard to live in Burma
Another story of the post-war—”FLOWERS & TROOPS”
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