Japanese War Crimes: Murder Under The Sun is a historical film about Japanese war crimes before and during World War II. It was shown on the History Channel.
According to Hulu, "Over 14 dreadful years between 1932 and 1945, Japan went on a rampage of war and atrocity beyond comprehension." This film goes into great detail about how American and many other soldiers were treated during these war crimes. By the summer of 1942 the Japanese had taken over more than 320,000 allied prisoners. Interviews of prisoners of war in Japan were also featured in the film.
Famous quotes containing the words japanese, war, murder and/or sun:
“The Japanese say, “If the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated.””
—Lester Cole, U.S. screenwriter, Nathaniel Curtis, and Frank Lloyd. Nick Condon (James Cagney)
“Every country we conquer feeds us. And these are just a few of the good things we’ll have when this war is over.... Slaves working for us everywhere while we sit back with a fork in our hands and a whip on our knees.”
—Curtis Siodmak (1902–1988)
“As I sat before the fire on my fir-twig seat, without walls above or around me, I remembered how far on every hand that wilderness stretched, before you came to cleared or cultivated fields, and wondered if any bear or moose was watching the light of my fire; for Nature looked sternly upon me on account of the murder of the moose.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“For the sun will shine in my back door some day.”
—Richard M. Jones (1892–1945)