 By comparison, the prosecutor Keenan is portrayed as a noisy and ignorant, yet scheming man.This depiction is based on the argument that Japan's war-time actions were misunderstood, and that these actions were not intended as acts of aggression, but as acts of self-preservation.The historian Peter High notes that "Pride" is one in a line of Japanese works from the late 1990s, including the films "Tower of Lilies" and "Wings of God", in which the Japanese are portrayed as victims of American vindictiveness and viciousness.