The Tunnel and Shinto

The first couple minutes of the movie were rather boring, but I suddenly got into the movie. A lone soldier is walking through a dark tunnel and the suspense is building through the movie's choice of music. A dog appears in the tunnel with what appears to be dynamite strapped around his neck. Quite sad. As the soldier walks through the tunnel and exits you hear another set of footprints. Out of the dark appears a solider that appears to be dead ( you later learn that he has died). He is confused and doesn't know what is happening. In the second part of the clip a whole group of dead soldiers appear and ask what has happened to them. This movie seems like it was a tragic butchering of the soldiers and the alive soldier possibility a chief or something is astonished. The soldiers line up and are ready for action. He asks then what they are doing here and that they should be resting in peace instead of helping others.
This is a crucial point in Shinto; as  it states that you should be to helpful to others in the world at large through deeds and actions without though of rewards and seeking advancement. Another main point of Shinto is to bind others with the harmonious acknowledgement of the emperor, to pray that the country may flourish; to maintain peoples peace and prosperity. This is exactly what the soldiers were doing, even though they were dead, they came back to fulfill the duties of the king and to help others. The chief states that he would rather have died with his troops then be alive alone. In Shinto, they have may afterlife's and I can't help to wonder if the afterworld is on the lone road, because their underworlds are like this world and not like a typical "heaven".
This movie seems to me that it is awfully similar to the current situation in Japan. People place their government and authorities over themselves. This is very different to what we have in the United States where we put ourselves above and beyond the government. I do not have an opinion on this because I believe that in each of the ways the countries are run there is something right and something wrong with the method.
Overall, I liked this movie and it was a great eye opener to different perspectives of religions.