For the last couple of weeks I started watching any war movie I can get my hands on. I was almost out of it when a friend of mine suggested a movie about the battle of Iwo Jima WWII - "Letters from Iwo Jima". It is without a shadow of a doubt a cinematic marvel and by far the finest piece of work from Eastwood.
Lieutenant General Tadamichi Kuribayashi (played by Ken Watanabe)
The movie is based on the Pacific Campaign of World War II 1945. The last stand of the outnumbered Imperial Japanese Army lead by Lieutenant General Tadamichi Kuribayashi (played by Ken Watanabe) against the United States on the island of Iwo Jima located 1,200 kilometers south of mainland Tokyo.
Invasion beach seen from the top of Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima
I'm a great admirer of Japanese honor, pride, glory, code and ethics. If someone saw "The Last Samurai" they will understand what I'm talking about. Ken Watanabe did an outstanding job in both the movies to show what Japanese honor is. The music is overwhelming it gives the exact amount of profundity the movie needs. Eastwood was right on target in every aspect of the movie.
We all know that soldiers of Allied Forces fought for survival and for the greater good of humanity but the question is will the soldiers of Axis Alliances be forgotten and will always be remembered as evil just because of their fascist leaders?
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3 comments:
You may also like "Flags of Our Fathers", also directed by Clint Eastwood, which tells the American side of the Iwo Jima saga. Both movies were released just a couple of months apart and were meant to be interestingly connected.
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Sajjadul Hakim
Saw that Hakim bhai, this one is a lot better. Flags of Our Fathers deals more on American propaganda of the three surviving flag-raisers than the battle.
I must agree with Rajiv on this. Letters touched me and Flags, well, it's not having the same passion in it. It gets too close to an all-star american war movie. Letters tells the story of a desperate army, ready to give the most precious sacrifice, their lives.
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