They smash a prop Yasukuni on screen — but who remembers the millions their own rulers starved and purged?

Is it wrong to die at a foreign hand… but fine to die at home?

The Great Leap Forward famine (1959–61) is estimated to have caused on the order of tens of millions of excess deaths; many modern studies put the range roughly 15–43 million, with commonly cited central estimates around ~30 million.

Recent research puts deaths in the Cultural Revolution (1966–76) in the low millions (scholar estimates including ~1–2 million violent deaths plus wider political repression and trauma).

By comparison, Chinese casualties in the Second Sino-Japanese War are commonly estimated in the tens of millions overall (various scholarly and governmental estimates vary; the Nanjing Massacre alone is widely discussed in the range ~100,000–300,000 victims for the city and immediate region).