Kokoda Historical Accuracy

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In the film Kokoda, the Japanese were illustrated unjustifiably, and the film was biased as it did not explore the film from Japan's point of view, and thus was an unreliable historical source of Information. The film depicts the Japanese as ruthless, and their faces are hidden in the film. In the scene where Wilstead played by Ewen Leslie is bayoneted in the eye the by Japanese soldier, the Japanese has disguised his face and covered his body in a ghillie suit to camouflage himself. Although, this is historically inaccurate as in reality the Japanese soldiers actually look like the people in Figure 1. Therefore the soldiers in the film were clearly not interpreted as well as what they really were. This could be due to poor funding of the film

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