Hachigatsu wrote:
Uchujin65 wrote:
Hachigatsu wrote:
In GMK, Godzilla is the embodiment all of the war dead, from both sides (including Kamikaze pilots forced to die).
Yeah, I know but I believe Anamoto's character explains the reason its attacking Japan is the influence of those killed by the Japanese. If the GMK Godzilla is filled with angry Japanese soldiers, wouldn't he go and pound America or China instead?

In the film, the spirits of the Japanese soldiers are angry at having been forced to fight and die in a war that they could not dissent (under pain of death, or worse). Not all Japanese soliders in WW2 were bloodthirsty monsters as Chinese (and other) propaganda will lead one to believe. http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/wingsofdefeat/

Weekly World News publishes a lot of articles about the angry ghosts of Japanese soldiers still haunting American ships in the Pacific. Maybe I've been reading too many of those. I definitely agree, I mean, Ishiro Honda was a Japanese soldier and was he a bloodthristy, fetus bayonetting hellbeast? The Japanese believed they were bringing peace to the world, as did the Nazis. I am starting to think more and more as I get older and see the ugliness of politics worldwide that winners really do write the history and I wonder if the world would be that much worse off if the Japanese and Germans had won. The world's screwed up anyways, Stalin was just as evil as Hitler if not worse and America largely squandered its victory destroying the Earth with blind consumerism. If you look at the Frank Capra documentaries during the war and ones produced during the Cold War, they have almost identical scripts except crossing out "Nazi" with "Russian" and "Japanese" with "Chinese or Vietnamese".

I still think that GMK Godzilla is primarily a symbol of Japan's ugly wartime past and how the modern Japanese haven't faced it well. The current conflict between the Japanese and Chinese is largely pertuated by the two governments. The Japanese government sees to it that students learn almost nothing about the war whereas the Chinese drill their kids about the Rape of Nanking for two months straight. So you have incidents like where a bunch of Japanese kids innocently wave the Imperial navy's flag at a soccer game in China not knowing what it means and the Chinese kids across the stadium overreacting to it and taking it as a grave offense.