 The reviewer notes that all soldiers interviewed in Minori Matsui's film were ex-POWs of the Chinese government and subjected to a long "re-education" that may call their testimony into question.However, the "Japan Times" reviewer, Mark Schilling felt that "they give impression of being not communist-controlled robots but elderly men who have little time and nothing to lose" .According to Japanese historian Ikuhiko Hata, Kaneko's testimony is not consistent with well-known historical facts.