Actually, this film is likely to do very well in China, S.Korea and the former IndoChina as well as the Philippines, all areas that were under Japanese domination at the time of the movie. Cultural memory will give this movie resonance that matches their war-time antagonisms.
The Chinese President, Xi Jinping and other Chinese leaders just presided Saturday at a ceremony on the 77th anniversary of the Nanking massacre by the Imperial Japanese Army. Also known in the west as "The Rape of Nanjing", it remains a monument to utter barbarity as practiced under the guise of war.