Unbroken, the World War II drama that tells the harrowing experience of war hero and Olympian Louis Zamperini, has been slammed by Japanese nationals and ultra-conservatives.

Right-wing national groups believed that the movie wrongly depicted and overemphasized the torture endured by the Olympic runner when he held his stint as a Japanese prisoner of war.

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Jolie's film was also labeled as racist.

The highlight of the controversy that truly seemed to irk Japanese audience was the scene when Zamperini's hands were beaten by Mutsuhiro Watanabe, an officer at the Japanese Army, portrayed by Japanese pop star Miyavi.

The emotionally, heart-breaking scene was taken straight out of Zampirini's own accounts, which was detailed in his biography by Laura Hillenbrand.

However, the film was hit as just "pure fabrication" by Hiromichi Moteki, secretary-general of the Society for the Dissemination of Historical Fact.

"If there is no verification of the things he said, then anyone can make such claims," Moteki told Telegraph.

"This movie has no credibility and is immoral," he continued.

Japanese netizens have urged the government to declare Jolie persona non grata and disallow her from entering Japan.

Zamperini, who died in July just after the movie's filming finished, served on the warplane that crashed in the Pacific in May 1943. He stayed adrift in a raft for 47 days, together with another survivor, until a Japanese warship captured them and held them prisoners in what could be described as a hellish nightmare until they were released V-J Day in August 1945.

Miyavi admitted that the role and the experience itself of reliving harrowing camp scenes were too much for him.

"It was awful torture for me to hate the other actors," he said in an interview with Vanity Fair.

"I had to have hatred for them. When I had to beat them, I had to think about protecting my family.

Miyavi also revealed that he didn't want to play the bad role, rather, he wanted to "put humanity in Watanabe's character, calling him "both crazy and sadistic" while, at the same time, "weak and traumatized."

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