Recently, we've had two Iwo Jima, during WarII, movies,
and
especially that Japanese Commander (the movie using him to his wife's letters as the thread line throughout), who shot himself died at the end.
In ancient China, we have,
http://www.chinaschool.org/szzl/special/historycity/yinchuan/html2/n1.htmAlthough, back to the time,
"
绍兴十一年八月,高宗和秦桧派人向金求和,金兀术要求“必先杀岳飞,方可议和”。秦桧于是诬岳飞谋反,将其下狱。1142年秦桧以“莫须有”的罪名将岳飞毒死于临安风波亭。宁宗时,岳飞得以昭雪,被追封鄂王。"But he was praised and glorified ever since his time by the entire country for over a thousand years in Chinese history up till this days 虽死犹荣
。秦桧 on the contrary, was looked down and had only a 万世的骂名 left as a malicious little person.