Our Land

[dukealien]

i knew this was related to hero! fun fact: 'our land' is a bad translation of the ideogram. i found it kinda distasteful at first, the movie, until, on reading up, i learned that the original subtitles translated the term differently, to something that sounds a lot less propagandistic: "All under heaven".

The ultimate message I got from the film was, "All must sacrifice themselves to the one central authority, no matter how terrific they are personally (to avoid disorder)."  Tarantino was undoubtedly constrained toward that conclusion.

As to the meaning of the ideogram, unless "All under heaven" implies a reservation that the lands where other peoples live are *not* under heaven, it could be taken as more threatening than "We're a sword of a nation."  Perhaps it's more like what Americans mean when they say, "God's country" - that is, God is over all countries but has a particular fondness for this one.  Which is chauvinistic, but not aggressively so.

@billy - well, debt and credit aren't quite the same thing, though one can degenerate into the other.  And then there's "social credit," another of those phrases where prepending "social" alters the meaning beyond recognition.