an unflinching descent into psychological and physical oblivion that will undoubtedly burn image of the truthful brutality and suffering of war into your cerebral cortex in a way not many other film will . in fact and there be simply no other war film like it . director kon ichikawa witness the unthinkable horror of hiroshima first hand only 10 day after the bomb be drop . he have say that from that day it would always be his mission to express the pointless and empty violence human inflict on each other and themselves . mr. ichikawa show u that there be no winner in war . for the path to victory and defeat be pave with the same soldier soullessly march down road which only have death and destruction at their end . mr. ichikawa succeed in bring his message to the world thru this haunt piece of cinema .