Talk:Rhapsody in August

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[edit] POV?

"it didn't help that Rhapsody hit American theaters during a particularly severe period of anti-Japanese jingoism in the United States"

Ummm, it was released during the nineties right? This sentence seems a bit extreme. --Geedubber 08:52, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Not really. the early Nineties was a bad time to be Japanese in America because you simultaneously had the fiftieth anniversary of Pearl Harbor, the Gulf War, which Japan pointedly refused to participate in, and an economic recession in the US while Japan was still outwardly financially successful. I suppose I'll eventually have to find a citation, but I'm just going on memory (POV! POV! POV!). I was recently watching another Japanese film, Patlabour 2, and was shocked that that film actually assumed the US would attack Japan over its economic success. Palm_Dogg 14:53, 27 March 2006 (UTC)