Venice, Italy – Modern warfare may have changed, but the suffering of victims remains the same, while those waging war will inevitably “commit horrifying acts,” Japanese director Shinya Tsukamoto said of his Vietnam War film at the Venice Film Festival. Nelson, Did you Kill People?” (“Neruson-san, Anata wa Hito o Koroshimashita Ka?“) which premiered Sept. 4 at the event, tells the true story of Allen Nelson, a Black U.S. Marine sent to Vietnam in 1966 and plagued the rest of his life by what he saw — and did — there.
Tsukamoto, last at Venice in 2018 with his pacifist samurai film “Killing,” said that when he learned about the story of Nelson, who battled PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) and dedicated his life to speaking out about the horrors of war, he felt compelled to portray his experience on film.
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