Who says Fellers-Aya was a fictional relationship?
This link might give you ideas on a different direction: http://www.bonnerfellers.com/uploads/B.Fellers_Yuri_Watanabe_Earlhamite_1996.pdf
shareNobody said it was fictional, as that article you posted even says "Their relationship was one of just friends". There was NO romance involved as the movie protrays. Fellers was married and had a daughter (the one who runs that website you used) in the 20's, he's wasn't running around Japan pining for Yuri as the movie would have you believe.
shareWhy does Hollywood always have to do this to a movie? There's enough non-fiction that they have to insert fiction into it? Since their involvement wasn't like it was portrayed in the movie, that makes it fiction. Hollywood ruined the movie Midway by inserting the fictional character Matt Garth then the BS love story between his son and a Japanese girl.
shareI don't like the insertions of fictional romances either ... to me it seems like they are trying to chickify the films
But they can serve as points to further to story or tell another angle or component. In Midway the introduction of the Garths was used to introduce the concept of Japanese Citizen interments ... which should not be overlooked. But this thing with Aya was way overboard and at many times dominated the story.
Japanese Internment camps would have no business in a movie like Midway because it had nothing to do with what the movie was about, the invasion of Midway Island HOWEVER, why not a movie about 442nd Infantry Regiment. In such a movie, you could incorporate the internment camps because many of the soldiers bravely fought for this country despite their families being in this camps.
shareI hear ya point ... but I was glad they added it. It was such a disgusting egregious point in our history that we need to be reminded of it.
As for the 442 ... there are at least 3 films that I can recall that address this.
1. National Pastime
2. Go For Broke
3. Going for Broke (Video documentary)