Let’s take them in order.Ģ006’s Only the Brave is a little independent film that shifts between the battle to rescue the “Lost Battalion” of the 141st Infantry Regiment and the soldiers’ lives back in Hawaii through a series of flashbacks that begin with the main character, played by Lane Nishikawa, takes a head wound. It’s one of those stories that can’t help but be both inspiring and depressing at the same time.īoth of these films have plots, but they are really just intended to teach you about the 442nd and the Japanese-American experience of the war. I’m not going to go into the long history of the unit, but you can read about it at the link above, then maybe check out the terrifying list of Medal of Honor citations. In this case, the subject is the career of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, made up of Japanese-American soldiers and famously the most decorated unit in the US Army ever. That’s right, this week it’s two, count ’em two, movies, both of them about the same subject.
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