[4] Shinobu Terajima received the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the Berlin Film Festival for her portrayal of Kurokawa's wife.

He is alive but reduced to a torso (no limbs), deaf and mute, with burns covering half of his face, but with three medals on his chest.

Wakamatsu's film is part of a revisionist movement seen in fashion, cartoons and video games that reconsider the country's past.

There are frequent references in the film to the mass rape and murder of Chinese civilians during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

[4] Shinobu Terajima received the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the Berlin Film Festival for her portrayal of Kurokawa's wife.