Wife of a Spy

For some reason half of the Rotten Tomatoes professional movie critics express disappointment that Wife of a Spy is either not actually a spy thriller, or take the film's title literally and understand Aoi's character as... an actual wife of a spy, failing to understand that this is foremost a drama about regular people guided by their moral compass to do, as intended whistleblowers, what is right even at great personal and societal cost, and that the title is merely a play of Aoi's participation in what becomes somewhat of an adventure for her.

Even if it never explicitly mentions Unit 731, that this film addresses the Imperial Japanese Kwangtung Army's biological experiments on prisoners of war--with one particular harrowing scene of (not actual historical) archive footage--is quite subversive as one released in the height of Japanese historical revisionism as state policy. This is the Godzilla-1-era of Japanese Showa Nostalgia era of cinema, after all.