History students love a good ¡°what if?¡± Would the authors of a man-made catastrophe have acted differently if they¡¯d been aware of how badly things would turn out?
In the case of Â鶹´«Ã½ decision to declare war against the United States in 1941, this isn¡¯t just a hypothetical. Only months before the attack on Pearl Harbor, a group of the country¡¯s brightest young minds crunched the numbers and informed their leaders that a prolonged conflict with the U.S. could only end in defeat. You probably know what happened next.
Yuya Ishii¡¯s ¡°The Secret Battlefield¡± dramatizes a little-known historical episode that still feels chillingly relevant. This is a good year to be releasing a film about a country rushing into an ill-advised war seemingly because nobody was brave enough to stop it.
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