What is the best Japanese war movie in your mind? Why?

My personal favorite Japanese war film is Chaos, an old film 1985 directed by Akira Kurosawa, with a douban score of 8.8, which won numerous awards in major international film festivals. At the 58th Academy Awards, Chaos was nominated for best director, best art direction, best photography and best costume design, and finally won the best costume design award.

The film was inspired by Shakespeare's plays. The story took place during the Warring States Period in Japan. History is true, but the story is fiction. The grand war scene also made Chaos the most expensive movie in Japan at that time, reaching 2.4 billion yen.

The film alone has nearly 1400 extras, more than 200 horses and 1400 pairs of armor. In order to perfectly show the scene that the city was burned down, the film set an ideal city and set it on fire.

This film is about the alienation of family relations in the power struggle. During the Warring States period, the princes of small countries showed their cruelty and occupied a large area of land through a war.

Xiuhu, an old man, decided to enfeoffment the land, and each of his three sons had a city, but the younger son was not satisfied with the enfeoffment and was expelled from the house.

The eldest son and the second son, who had carved up their father's land, gradually became estranged and disloyal, and their father was driven away, and the two sons turned against each other, and tragedies took turns.

After learning what happened to his father, his youngest son led the Crusade, but was eventually shot. Under the temptation of power, Xiuhu family, a big family, constantly violated human relations, and finally ended up with a "clean white land", which is both regrettable and doomed.

We often ridicule that the war in Japan during the Warring States period was a struggle between villages. There are not many people involved in the war in the film, but the use of various strategies is just right and the scene is spectacular. At the age of 75, Akira Kurosawa personally went to the camera and designed the details, which shows the master's love for movies.

Clothing and photography are also a highlight of the film. The use of long shots and well-designed composition make the whole movie look very delicate.