Lebak Membara

When I read the text for this movie on the videobox it said "more suspense than a tv screen can take" and "the most explosive and shocking movie" I thought that it naturally would be exaggerated, but this IS quite a horrifying picture. It deals with the Japanese occupation during WWII, and shows graphically for instance torture, rape (although there is no nudity) and gouged eyes, impaled bodies, broken necks etc I don't know whether this movie, which bares the English title "Blazing battle", was meant as an eastern (there is a lot of karate) or as a horror. It may even be historically accurate: both the Japanese and the Indonesians are cruel in their way of fighting the war. It was a bit overlong (when the Japanese surrender we continue in battle scenes as the allies are now the enemy) but the general message is clear: this was Indonesia's struggle for independence!