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Listen to your favorite songs from Letters From Iwo Jima by Kyle Eastwood and Michael Stevens Now. Stream ad-free with Amazon Music Unlimited on mobile, desktop, and tablet. Download our mobile app now. Letters from Iwo Jima was a masterpiece of irony, showing the war through the eyes of the enemy. I'm not making any kind of statement about the war itself, just the fact that the 'enemy' is in essence no different in any war. A Community Driven UPC Barcode Database to for Disc to Digital titles. Generate DVD and Blu-Ray UPCs instantly for use with disc to digital services.
Taking a black page from history, Eastwood delivers a stark, unflinching and humanist portrait of Japanese soldiers.
Reviewed by Greg Maltz, September 22, 2007Clint Eastwood's Japanese perspective of the battle of Iwo Jima is like a cloud. In shifting shades of foreboding and despondence, the film delivers an account of events with the action of a war epic, the detail of a documentary and the emotional impact of a drama. Collectively, the experience of the Japanese troops takes on many forms. Some characters, including the leader, Lt. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi (Ken Watanabe), are too complex to pin down firmly. Others, like the bumbling Saigo (Kazunari Ninomiya), are motivated only to return to their family and care nothing for the war or their superiors. From idealistic honor to bitter defeat to heartbroken fatalism, the spirit of the soldiers is given life decades after the war from the words they wrote on Iwo Jima. Using the troops' handwritten letters as a vehicle for his film, Eastwood attempts to focus his lens on the humanity of a battle that was inhuman.
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Hopelessly outnumbered and outgunned, the Japanese forces on Iwo Jima were concerned less with how to win than with how to die. Once mainland Japan leadership established that no reinforcements, tanks or planes could be spared in the defense of Iwo Jima, Kuribayashi and his men knew that the battle was essentially a suicide mission. Eastwood shows in brutal detail that the Japanese code of honor led many troops to pull their grenade pins and hold the explosive charges against their chests with grisly results. Other soldiers engaged in banzai missions at the command of their leaders. While those offensive tactics were largely effective against the poorly trained Chinese forces Japan faced earlier in the war, the US military made short work of the charging Japanese soldiers. Still, Letters from Iwo Jimo shows how the Japanese dug in to the island's rugged terrain to inflict maximum damage to the Americans.
At many points, the film dovetails with Flags of Our Fathers, Eastwood's sister production that portrays the war from the U.S. soldiers' perspective. In fact, both films were shot at the same time to make use of closely linked scenes. But where Flags of Our Fathers was mostly unsuccessful in establishing a strong emotional bond between the audience and the soldiers, Saigo was the key to the power of Letters from Iwo Jima. Through Saigo, the audience experienced not only the overall horror endured by Japanese forces, but also the moments of humanity. Saigo was the one character guided purely by human instincts and not by Japan's reckless chain of command. What the movie doesn't show is that Japan badly terrorized the people of China, the Philippines and other Asia/Pacific countries in the most inhuman ways imaginable. Iwo Jima was America's stepping stone--a key strategic base to eventually put a stop to Japan's war machine. And that is why the battle of Iwo Jima, in spite of its barren locale, was a critical front in the war and a worthy focal point in history. Showing all 7 items
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Letters from Iwo Jima portrays the World War II Battle of Iwo Jima from the perspective of the Japanese soldiers and is a companion piece to Flags of Our Fathers (2006) (2006), which depicts the same battle from the American viewpoint. Both films are directed by Clint Eastwood. The movie focuses on a platoon of Japanese soldiers, commanded by Lieutenant General Tadamichi Kuribayashi (Ken Watanabe), under orders to defend to their deaths Iwo Jima's Mount Suribachi from U.S. attack. Edit (Coming Soon)
Letters from Iwo Jima is based on a screenplay by Japanese-American screenwriter Iris Yamashita. She based her screenplay on two nonfiction books: (1) 'Gyokusai Soshireikan' no Etegami [Picture Letters from the Commander in Chief] (2002) by General Tadamichi Kuribayashi, and (2) So Sad to Fall in Battle: An Account of War (2005) by Kumiko Kakehashi. Edit (Coming Soon)
- Is seeing 'Flags of Our Fathers' important for understanding this movie?
To understand it? No. Both films can be viewed as standalone movies. However, it's better to watch them both (no matter the order), because the point of making them was to show different points of view of one event. Edit (Coming Soon)
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Complete Tafseer Ibn-e-Kaseer in URDU. 0 subfolder(s) 33 file(s), Total Size: 139.71 MB. Name, Size, Type. File - Click to learn details 01.pdf, 10.25 MB. Iwo Jima (now Iwo To) is a volcanic Island in the northwest Pacific Ocean south of Japan and east of Taiwan. Edit (Coming Soon)
- Why was Iwo Jima such an important island during World War II?
Although sparsely inhabited, Iwo Jima was the site of several airfields that hindered U.S. bombing missions to Tokyo. Once the bases were secured, it was believed that the U.S. would use the bases for an invasion of the Japanese mainland. Edit (Coming Soon)
After burning the documents and burying the letters, Private Saigo (Kazunari Ninomiya) seeks to rejoin Kuribayashi and his troops only to find Kuribayashi dying of the wounds he suffered during the final surprise attack and Lieutenant Fujita (Hiroshi Watanabe) killed by a sniper. With his last breaths, Kuribayashi asks Saigo whether Iwo Jima is still Japanese soil (yes) and rrequests to be buried where no one can find his body. He then shoots himself with the M1911, and Saigo drags off the body for burial. Meanwhile, a US patrol finds Fujita's body, and one Marine picks up Fujita's katana while another tucks Kuribayashi's M1911 into his belt. They search the area and find Saigo hiding, still carrying the burial shovel. Saigo is ready to surrender until he notices the M1911 tucked in the Marine's belt. He goes berserk and begins swinging his shovel at the Marines until one of them knocks Saigo unconscious with the butt of his rifle. When Saigo awakens, he finds himself lying on a stretcher amid other wounded soldiers waiting to be transported by 'the enemy.' He looks up to see the red rising sun in the east. The final scene cuts back to 2005 where the Japanese archeologists are digging up the sack of letters Saigo buried 61 years earlier. Edit (Coming Soon)
- Was 'Letters from Iwo Jima' actually filmed on Iwo Jima?
It was filmed mostly in Barstow and Bakersfield in California. A skeleton crew was allowed only one day to make on-location shots on Iwo Jima, and that was only after being given special permission from the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, because more than 10,000 missing Japanese soldiers still rest under the soil. Edit (Coming Soon)