Unbroken

Audiences skipped splashy holiday fare like “Unbroken” and “Into the Woods,” choosing instead to see “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies.”

Lost at sea on a rubber raft. No food. You try to eat a seagull. Doesn’t go down well (it comes right back up), so you eat small sharks raw. Constant vigilance is necessary; bigger sharks leap into the raft to get at you. Storms. Only rainwater to drink. Try that for 47 days. Then get captured by hostile forces and beaten black and blue, for a long, long, time.

Angelina Jolie’s new movie “Unbroken” has not been released in Japan yet, but it has already struck a nerve in a country still wrestling over its wartime past.

Check here what is next up on the big screen for December.