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we saw it on video we’d have to rewind to read the first subtitles.
Yes, they do say what we thought they said: in 1943, the USA and Japan
are fighting as allies in WWII. In 1945, the atomic bomb is dropped on
Berlin and the victorious countries which, let’s say, well, share
the world between them. Korea is no longer Korea. Neither North nor South.
It’s not even an associate state. It’s a region of the Rising
Sun Empire. No, this isn’t a new interpretation of history but a
spectacular cinematographic redrawing of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity,
with doors opening between the present, the past and the future. What,
there are no pro-independence armies? Of course there are, the Hureisenjin
group. Brutal, visionary, apocalyptic, 2009 Lost Memories
was a huge oriental box-office success. |
