Jung Woo-sung’s Movie Recorded 8 Million Audiences, K-netizens Criticized Similar-Themed Japanese Movie For Glorifying War Crimes

While the movie “12.12: The Day” continues to be a huge box office hit in Korea, a post made by a Japanese netizen is drawing attention

Recently, a Japanese netizen made a post on an online community, saying, “In Korea, productions such as ‘12.12: The Day’ are becoming big hits. It is so painful to see the difference between that movie and our movie, where a time-slip high school girl falls in love with a kamikaze commando.” This post is currently going viral in Korea.

The movie mentioned by the netizen is a Japanese movie called “I Wish I Could Meet You Again on the Hill Where That Flower Blooms”, based on the novel of the same name. As the original novel became popular among teenagers through TikTok, it was made into a movie based, and accordingly, the movie also topped the box office in Japan.

The film, released on December 8th, tells the story of Yuri (Haruka Fukuhara), a modern high school girl, who time-slips to Japan in 1945 and falls in love with Arica (Koshi Mizukami), a special forces officer in Kamikaze (Japanese Special Attack Units of military aviators who flew suicide attacks for the Japanese Empire).

This is what the netizen in question pointed out. Director Kim Sung-soo’s “12.12: The Day” is a work set during Korea’s December 12 military revolt, and was praised for revealing historical facts sincerely.

Thanks to that, it became a movie that could appeal to not only the middle-aged people who experienced the tragedy at that time, but also the young people who read the historical background only in history books.

On the other hand, “I Wish I Could Meet You Again on the Hill Where That Flower Blooms” has a historical background, but it is basically a fantasy. However, it does not deal with all the atrocities committed by the Japanese Empire during the Pacific War. For this reason, it was criticized for glorifying Kamikaze, a tactical commando for self-destructing airplanes.

For this reason, Korean netizens left comments such as, “Korea is criticizing the past and Japan is glorifying the past,” “Do you think that’s a truly proud history?” and “What’s wrong with going further into the past?”

Meanwhile, as of December 15th, “12.12: The Day,” starring Jung Woo-sung, exceeded 7.99 million viewers, and it is likely to exceed 9 million viewers as early as the weekend.

Source: Xsports News