We were sympathetic when we learned that the Japanese did not much care for the movies Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944), Back to Bataan (1945) or David Lean’s masterpiece Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) – but when we heard that they hated Sands of Iwo Jima (1952) – we finally realized that there are some people you simply cannot please. Apparently, we weren’t the only ones who felt this way: the editors of Quick Magazine were so outraged on this matter they dispatched a reporter to document the venom that spewed forth from those Japanese lips as they departed the theater.
Click here to read about August 28, 1945 – the day the American occupation began.
