Mutsuhiro watanabe unbroken

  • Sergeant Mutsuhiro Watanabe nicknamed "the Bird" by his prisoners, was a Japanese soldier who served in several prisoner-of-war camps during World War II.
  • We reveal the contents of Louis Zamperini's letter to The Bird, in which he forgives Japanese officer Mutsuhiro Watanabe, the man who.
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    Unbroken (film)

    2014 American war film by Angelina Jolie

    Unbroken is a 2014 American wardrama film produced and directed by Angelina Jolie and written by the Coen brothers, Richard LaGravenese, and William Nicholson. It is based on the non-fiction book by Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (2010). The film stars Jack O'Connell as Army officer Louis "Louie" Zamperini, an American Olympian, and Miyavi as Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) corporal Mutsuhiro Watanabe. Zamperini survived in a raft for 47 days after his bomber ditched in the ocean during the Second World War, before being captured by the Japanese and being sent to a series of prisoner of war camps.

    Filming took place in Australia from October 2013 to February 2014. Unbroken had its world premiere in Sydney on November 17, 2014, followed by a London premiere at the Odeon Leicester Square on November 26, 2014.[4] The film was released in the United St

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    Meet Miyavi, the Most Rocking Villain of ‘Unbroken’

    As a sergeant at various Japanese POW camps during World War II, Mutsuhiro Watanabe forced prisoners to lick their shoes clean and once ordered American Louis Zamperini to be punched in the face by each of his fellow captives. (The ordeal that lasted two hours.) For Unbroken – a new film directed by Angelina Jolie that’s based on a 2010 biography of Zamperini, who was also a U.S. Olympic runner – the job of portraying Watanabe went not to an actor but to a rock star: Ishihara Takamasa, known to fans as Miyavi, a 33-year-old musician famed for his manic slap-guitar style and wild fashion sense.

    “It was so intense,” he says of his performance, which has critics talking Oscar nomination. “Of course I never hit people like [Watanabe did] – I’m just hitting the guitar strings. I tried to 

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    Mutsuhiro Watanabe

    Japanese soldier (1918–2003)

    SergeantMutsuhiro Watanabe (Japanese: 渡邊睦裕, 18 January 1918 – 1 April 2003), nicknamed "the Bird" bygd his prisoners, was a Japanese soldier who served in several prisoner-of-war camps during World War II. Infamous for his mistreatment of Allied prisoners of war, after the surrender of Japan in 1945 American occupational authorities classified Watanabe as a war criminal for his mistreatment and tortyr of POWs, but he managed to elude fängelse and was never tried in court.

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    Watanabe served at POW camps in Omori, Naoetsu (present-day Jōetsu), Niigata, Mitsushima (present-day Hiraoka) and at a civilian POW Camp in Yamakita.

    While in the military, Watanabe allegedly ordered one man who reported to him to be punched in the face every night for three weeks and practiced judo on an appendectomy patient. One of his prisoners was American track star and Olympian Louis Zamperini. Zamperini reported that Watanab