Lee missed an opportunity to go film noire by having the Tei character made a mere sex toy for the occupier, she surviving in ignominy the deaths of her betrayed co-conspirators. Exploited over and over sexually might be a lesson of sorts for ahistorical teen-agers of all ages. Or, we could have had a 'hopeful' finale wherein Tei's loving-too-well character is the sole survivor of the entire debacle.
