European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 7, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Three men Kneel in front of open Graves on Guam As japanese prepare to behead them. The executions took place in 1941, shortly after Japan seized the atrocities loud and Clear in silent cries by Vernon Scott up Hollywood reporter by will broadcast the least politically Correct to movie of the year when the it airs silent cries in the states on Mon Day. It is an unusual move for the Belea cured Peacock network currently running last among the big three because it tells a brutal Story without fear of bruising sensitive feelings. The offended party is certain to be Japan. Silent cries dramatizes japanese atrocities during world War ii which have somehow been glossed Over or simply overlooked since the land of the rising Sun became an Industrial Power and trading partner of the United states. Germany has enjoyed no such immunity. Focus on the nazis and their hideous crimes have been the subject of scores of movies and to films for so years. But since the end of hostilities Japan has been forgiven its bloody fanaticism which Cost uncounted american lives. The killings have been downplayed perhaps sex plating american guilt Over having dropped atom bombs on that Empire. Hollywood movie makers have even focused on America s policy of interning japanese americans with such feature movies As come see the Paradise in 1989 and to films . Farewell to Manzanar in 1976. One May ask Why it is politically Correct for Hollywood to paint americans As wartime heavies but not the japanese. No cd a silent cries is a fictional account of a japanese concentration Camp for australian american and other european women and children. It is taken from Janice Young Brooks Book guests of the emperor. Author Brooks read Many diaries kept by victims a a a a file gis rest during the 1942 Bataan death March in which 3,000 . Prisoners were Ted 140 Miles afoot without food or water by the japanese. Of the cruel japanese Camps about a third of whom perished under inhumane treatment. The film stars Gena Rowlands Annabeth Gish Chloe Webb and Gail Strickland. To very surprised Abc is broadcasting silent cries a Brooks said. A a it a not politically Correct to acknowledge that Japan was our enemy or that world War ii happened. A we must assume guards in internment Camps for women were the Dregs of the japanese army. Women were held in such Low esteem in that country it was a disgrace to even guard them a especially Western women who were abhorred. A i think its real Brave of everyone involved with silent cries. To me the Story is important a part of history that be lost. The australians made a town like Alice 1956 about japanese oppression of British women a a what influenced me to write the Book was a program the to series Tenno that ran on pcs. It was about women in the Camps a 30-part British austra Lian project. Until then i did no to know these things had actually happened. A when i researched the subject in 1985 1 thought More people should know about about it that it should t be lost to history. Neither my Book nor the movie is japanese bashing. Its simply historical fact. Quot a lot of those captive women published their diaries after the War. I read As Many of them As i could but i find the women involved. Since my Book was published three years ago several of the women have found me. A fall of them said my Book got it exactly right. They said a that s what it was like. I can to take credit. The diaries were so honest. Even today i Don t know How Many thousands of women were taken captive by the japanese a while i was writing my Book our government was holding hearings on reparations for interning japanese in this country. There were no reparations for the women victims of the japanese. A it was wrong to intern japanese americans but on the other hand they did no to suffer a fraction As much As our own people at the hands of the Brooks said female internees reported rape was rare in the Camps because the japanese considered Western women beneath contempt almost subhuman. A the Best of the diaries that became books was by Agnes Newton Kieth a Brooks said a it was made into a movie three came Home 1950 with Claudette Colbert. Agness was one who was raped. A actually those women who did no to survive internment were mostly neglected to death. The food was horrible medical attention minimal and crude and their clothes were in rags. Quot i read a lot of men s diaries too. They were treated worse than women. Because the women had children with them they were More nurturing and Felt it More necessary to hide their despondency from the youngsters. A biologically and through centuries of oppression women Are less Likely to rebel or attempt escape than men. In none of the diaries was there any mention of escape. They dismissed the thought because they knew they hide. And where would they go surrounded by japanese troops a nah experiences in the film arc based on real events but the individuals Are not specifically identified. A what matters to me is that millions of americans will see the movie. Naturally i done to expect it Ever to be shown in the armed forces radio and television services says it would eventually air Swiont cries it the Abc movie draws a High enough Nielsen Ramg
