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Wings of Defeat
2007 · Film · documentary · 89 min
Directed by Risa Morimoto
Wings of Defeat is a feature-length documentary exploring the human experience of surviving kamikaze pilots. When director, Risa Morimoto, learned that her beloved uncle had trained as a kamikaze pilot in his youth but carried that secret to his grave, she decided to retrace his footsteps and ask surviving pilots about their provocative experiences. Sixty years later, survivors in their eighties tell us about their training, their mindsets, their experiences in a kamikaze cockpit and what it meant to survive when thousands of their fellow pilots crashed to their deaths. Their stories insist we set aside our preconceptions to relive their all too human experiences with them. Ultimately, they help us question what responsibilities a government at war has to its soldiers and to its people.
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But the documentary doesn't claim to be about human computer contributors. It claims to be about women specifically. It's super weird to critique a historical documentary for being focused in its scope. Should we also critique "Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m.", a documentary about a specific uprising in a specific extermination camp? Is Wings of Defeat, which is specifically about kamikaze pilots, woke because it's not about all pilots?