Also I do not understand how people call classic pacific theather WWII movies propaganda. I watched a few classic movies based on the pacific theater and the portrayal of the japanese army seems quite accurate.

Why do critics say that their savagery has been exaggerated? Have they never heard of nanking holocaust?? The japanese imperial army has always have a tradition of displaying their power over conquered enemies by committing unthinkable attrocities. They took pride in enslaving the conquered and killing the most defensless and the most innocent.

Even today, some of the surviving soldiers of the imperial army did not regret killing POWs and some even took pride in it still. Denying history and holocausts like nobody's buisness. Last I recall, the imperial army requires one to completley dispose of their humanity as part of their training.

However I would not blame the average Japanese citizen, but rather their military system and super-patriotic traditions of the bushido. The training was so harsh that the trainee will have completley and literally have the part of brain that makes him/her human damaged. Still capable of thinking, but no emotion. The goal of the WWII era military administration in japan was to make the ordinary sane person into a complete psychopath before sending them to war. As evidence proves it, the japanese military has killed and enslaved every non-japanese or "gaijin" that was within their reach.

The dictator, Hideki Tojo, is the big guy behind all this madness. The emperor was like a puppet to him, seeing that everyone would follow the emperor and the emperor thought that nobody would use him because everyone treated him as a god. Tojo was even worst than hitler as he was the one who authorized the unit 731 to practice inhumane experiments on live civilians.

The right wingers of japan are the most dangerous as they are literally "walking death". The whole entire of their imperial army was walking death. That is what makes people like the Tokyo Govenor a threat. A right winger who wants people to follow his hateful ideologies.

So all and all, as long as the movies are only directed at the extreme right-wingers and the military of japan, it should not be considered propaganda.

The question remains, why does their army purposely kill civilians? Or is it a the bushido that states that civilians should be considered as combatants as well??