San and Mayu are two schoolgirls living in Okinawa during the closing months of the Pacific War. Together with their classmates, the two friends are drafted into the war effort as nurses for wounded soldiers. When ordered to die for their country, the remaining members of the group escape only to face the harsh environment of a tropical paradise that has become a hellish battlefield.
While Cocoon discards some of the author’s original messages it still manages to be a well-rounded anti-war movie
It seems like society has reached the general consensus that war is bad and modern media has moved along with it. Movies like [American Sniper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Sniper) and the post-iraq patriotic feel-good mindset are out and critical portrayals of soldiers and citizens are wh…
A mediocre, sanitized adaptation of an excellent manga.
_This review contains non-detailed discussions of gore, sexual violence , and suicide, as well as spoilers for both the film and the manga version._
People are instinctively wary of war stories from 20th-century Japan. Imperial Japan was an aggressively expansionist military power that committed s…
Okay so I need to talk about Cocoon because I genuinely haven't stopped thinking about it since I watched it.
This is a 60-minute anime special set during the final days of World War II, following a group of schoolgirls in Okinawa who get drafted as battlefield nurses during the closing months of th…