Japanese film

Watch the moive -Dr. Akagi (Dir. Imamura Shōhei, 1998, 129 min) ,and Read -Theodore and Haruko
Cook, ed., Japan At War: An Oral History 354-63, 363-66; 441-47 ,Dazai Osamu, "Currency”
Answer ONE of the following prompts:

1. How is atrocity and/or violence portrayed in the film? Is there any pattern to it, or commonalities? Who took
   part? To what ends? With what goals in mind? Is there any difference between what the perpetrators say and
   how they act?
2. What is the relationship of the wartime state/military and the civilian population/ civil society? Is it the case
   that they are entirely separate? How do they interact, and how does that interaction relate to the postwar
   argument that "militarists” alone were responsible for atrocity and violence?