You know you gotta love the war propaganda during World War II (I am of course being sarcastic), since this film depicts the Japenese as brutal imperialists and yet it never depicts the Americans as brutal imperialists when they took the Phillipines from Spain or when President McKinley told  the American people that his Protestant God told him to subjugate the Catholic people of the Phillipines. When America decided to make their own Asian empire in the Pacific it lead directly to the Pacific Operation during World War II, Korea and Vietnam.

I am of course not denying the Japenese did not do savage and barbaric acts but you know for all of the talk of Japenese brutality during World War II Japan never dropped atomic bombs on defenseless cities where the casualties were old men, women and children. That honor went to us "civilised Americans" and to our "honored" Presidents FDR and Truman which broke St. Augustine's Christian just war theory.

Incidently the director of this film was a Communist who was later called out during the Hollywood blacklistWayne during making the film when the director called Wayne a "god-d*** fascist" and Wayne in turn calling him a "god-d*** Communist."