[2] The film was backed by nationalistic figures including Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara[3] and was intended to expose what the filmmakers saw as propaganda[4] aspects of the Nanjing Massacre.
Less than a month before the 70th anniversary of the Nanjing massacre, the director said in an interview[3] that Japanese war criminals were martyrs who were made into scapegoats for war crimes as Jesus Christ was nailed to the cross in order to bear the sins of the world, and they died bearing all of old Japan's good and bad parts.
The film was based on the work of Asia University professor Shūdō Higashinakano who has claimed the massacre was a hoax.
[2] Mizushima said that the project was meant to counter the film Nanking, a 2007 American documentary, which he believed was "based on fabrications and gives a false impression"[6] and which he perceives to be a "setup by China to control intelligence".
This part shows the last day of the seven people who were condemned to death in 1948 by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East and executed on 23 December 1948 at Sugamo Prison, Tokyo.