An online petition where the 'Maleficent' actress is called a 'demon' seeks to halt the distribution of the Louis Zamperini biopic on the grounds that it's filled with fabricated story.
- December 10, 2014
AceShowbiz -
Japanese nationalists are seeking to ban Angelina Jolie and her movie "Unbroken". They call the actress-turned-director "racist" for depicting unspeakable tortures to which Japanese guards subjected their prisoners of war in the Louis Zamperini biopic.
"It's pure fabrication," Hiromichi Moteki from Japan's Society for the Dissemination of Historical Fact told The Telegraph. "If there is no verification of the things he said, then anyone can make such claims. This movie has no credibility and is immoral."
A petition on Change.org has been launched in an effort to stop distribution of the Jack O'Connell film on the grounds that it is "contradictory to the facts." Describing the "Maleficent" actress as a "demon," it has gained more than 8,000 signatures.
Coming to Jolie's defense was Mindy Kotler, director of Asia Policy Point, who encouraged Japan to face up to its brutal actions in the past. "It is one thing to question the memories of illiterate women who were forced into sexual slavery for the Japanese military," she said. "It is quite another to question the memory of a white male Olympian who was a disciple of Billy Graham."
"Further, there is plenty of documentation on the abuse and tortures inflicted upon POWs," she added. "There is also plenty of eyewitness and forensic evidence of Japanese cannibalism of prisoners as well of fellow soldiers."
