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,
"
紹興十一年八月,高宗和秦檜派人向金求和,金兀術要求“必先殺嶽飛,方可議和”。秦檜於是誣嶽飛謀反,將其下獄。1142年秦檜以“莫須有”的罪名將嶽飛毒死於臨安風波亭。寧宗時,嶽飛得以昭雪,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 雖死猶榮
。秦檜 on the contrary, was looked down and had only a 萬世的罵名 left as a malicious little person.