Filmmaker / Artist: Andrew Droz Palermo
Films Include: You're Next, A Face Fixed and White Rabbits - Percussion Gun.
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Nogi Maresuki was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army and a prominent figure in the Russo-Japanese war.
At the end of the war, Nogi made a report directly to Emperor Meiji explaining battles of the Siege of Port Arthur in detail, he broke down and wept, apologizing for the 56,000 lives lost in that campaign and asking to be allowed to kill himself in atonement. Emperor Meiji told him that suicide was unacceptable, as all responsibility for the war was due to imperial orders, and that Nogi must remain alive, at least as long as he himself lived.
Once the Emperor passed, Nogi and his wife committed seppuku. In his suicide letter, he said that he wished to expiate for his disgrace in Kyūshū, and for the thousands of casualties at Port Arthur. Nogi spent most of his personal fortune on hospitals for wounded soldiers and on memorial monuments erected around the country in commemoration of those killed. He also donated his body to medical science.
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