#396 Yesterday's sky, a fighter jet?

[Army on the Tree]
Kino ue no guntai
It is still showing.
In Tokyo, the screening times are becoming a bit tricky.
Shinjuku is okay.
Please look it up.
Please book your seats.



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Now, about fighter jets...

I have been given a photo book before and have looked at it often.
Also, I have seen actual military vehicles and have even been given a ride in a helicopter.

I haven't been in a fighter jet, though...

Now, yesterday's sky, a fighter jet?
It passed by quickly with a shape and sound that were clearly not a passenger plane. Just one. It looked like it was flying from north to south.
It was a sound that seemed to tear through the sky, a loud 'roooooooar'.

I am against war.
I will not fight myself.
What if I'm attacked? Fight back?
That's a conversation for when you're fighting with your bare hands.
That's not the case for matters between countries,
why can't they just talk it out?

Even if there is no end in sight, why can't they just keep talking?
What are brains, language, interpreters, wisdom, and diplomacy for?
It's sad.

I don't want to go back.
Why do you keep doing things like in the Showa era?
I hate it.
I absolutely hate it.

I don't want to become a battlefield, I don't want to send anyone there, and I don't want to justify destruction or reconstruction.

I don't need weapons either.
If it is our fate to perish, I think we should just perish naturally.
Why do you spend vast amounts of money, make deals, and try to move money around?
It's just someone's bad-taste game, isn't it?
It's no different from a video game.

Is this some kind of live-action version of something like [Redacted] and Knight?
I hate it.

I hate it.
I am absolutely against it.
I don't think it's 'unavoidable'.
I am against war.
I hate losing, and I hate winning.

I'm interested in all war movies, but I will definitely watch this one.
[Army on the Tree]

In the Kanto region, in Tokyo, the number of movie theaters showing it is decreasing.
Everyone, please hurry.

Nagasaki and Hiroshima, of course, but
I think we must never forget Okinawa either.

We must also not forget that there were air raids in various places.
It has only been 80 years since the end of the war.

A 95-year-old person was 15 years old then.
What was it like for a 15-year-old at that time?

I don't know if they will tell me,
but I think that happens when the listener has grown, or when they judge that the listener has the strength to accept it,
when they have been trusted.

Unfortunately, people really do take various things to the grave.
My grandparents were the same.
That was also at an age when I was immature.

I couldn't ask anything.
I wasn't taught anything. But, they took it to the grave.
I understood that much.

To take to the grave
means to never speak of it.

That is the only thing I understood.

There are other movies as well. First, I would like to introduce this one.
We must not forget.
We must never forget that there was a landing battle.
I heard that many local people joined the staff to make this movie.


They even prepared this banyan tree as it was in nature for the filming.

I heard that human remains were also discovered during that process.

The way the sound technician works with both arms raised holding that long pole—I used to think nothing of it, and even wanted to try it myself, but now it's impossible.
I cannot continue to use it like that.

They said they hoped this movie
would reach many people.

Please, go to the theater.

Don't wait for Netflix or anything; please watch it in a movie theater this summer.

The end.

P.S. The reason they don't speak the local language

I think it is largely due to the fact that back then, if you spoke the local language, you were killed.

I met a parent and child where the grandmother could speak some of the common language used in central Naha, but the child didn't know it at all.

I think it is a painful and sad history.

Each region and island spoke completely different languages, but they were unified and assimilated.
They were forced to learn the 'National Language' (Japanese).
That is why I have a resistance to the term 'National Language'.
Why call it 'National Language' when you could just call it Japanese?
It is likely because it was necessary to unify for the sake of war. I can sense that.
If someone spoke a language they didn't understand, the people in power would get anxious because they couldn't understand it. It would make things less cohesive. So, they would treat them as spies. And then, kill them.

That is war.