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Even with the changes, however, the film will open at a tricky moment in Japan. For many of today's Japanese, Pearl Harbor recalls not the surprise attack of a half-century ago but the accidental sinking of a Japanese fishing boat by a U.S. Navy submarine earlier this year. Japanese TV coverage of the film's U.S. premiere focused on the proximity of the Navy carrier on which the celebrations were held to the spot where the Ehime Maru was sunk. "I can't imagine why they had to hold it there, and so soon after the incident," says...
...Japan. Junichiro Koizumi, the new and hugely popular Prime Minister, is determined to restore national pride; he plans to visit the Yasukuni Shrine, a memorial, which most of his predecessors have avoided, that's controversial for heralding convicted war criminals as well as other war dead. A film like Pearl Harbor, says Koizumi's spokesman, Kazuhiko Koshikawa, is "quite fictitious and one-sided. Japan is portrayed as the enemy and wrong. The U.S. is portrayed as right...
...soldiers as heroes who save Indonesia from brutish white settlers. "Japanese today have lost their pride," says Katsuaki Asano, Merdeka's executive producer. "But were we really so wrong? The rest of Asia is grateful to us for helping them toward independence. I think Japanese moviegoers will see Pearl Harbor and feel disgusted at being portrayed once again as the bad guys...
...part because it was rare: a Disney epic every few years and not much else. Now Hollywood shovels out half a dozen animated features a year, from the studios of Disney and Pixar, DreamWorks, Nickelodeon. Still others that don't look animated are: great chunks of them, anyway (Pearl Harbor, Planet of the Apes). We won't even mention--it's too, too depressing--the great ruck of live-action movies, starring your son's favorite buffoons, the Schneiders and Sandlers and Greens. These slob comedies play like long, stupider versions of Itchy & Scratchy...
...AFFLECK Pearl Harbor star took pay cut for part of movie's profits. Sounded good at the time. Glug, glug...