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• Letters From Iwo Jima Cast

Jan 11, 2007 - Letters from Iwo Jima (2007) Ken Watanabe as Gen. Kazunari Ninomiya as Saigo. Tsuyoshi Ihara as Baron Nishi. Ryo Kase as Shimizu. Shidou Nakamura as Lt. Letters from Iwo Jima Trailer The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it. Watch Letters from Iwo Jima on 123movies: The island of Iwo Jima stands between the American military force and the home islands of Japan. Therefore the Imperial Japanese Army is desperate to prevent it from falling into American hands and providing a launching point for an invasion of Japan.

Hollywood is often criticised for dehumanising its enemies, reducing them to shadowy shapes behind bursts of gunfire and the occasional Wilhelm scream. New bollywood songs 2017 from pagalworld. Somewhat understandable for a 1940s propaganda pic, but more recent examples (Black Hawk Down springs to mind) have left a sour taste in the mouth. Had Flags Of Our Fathers — Clint Eastwood’s account of the US servicemen photographed raising Old Glory at the peak of Mount Suribachi — been Eastwood’s only Iwo Jima movie, then no doubt it would have drawn similar critical heat. But Clint couldn’t leave it there, with what he saw as half an untold story. So now we have something rather unprecedented: an entire, separate movie, released only a few months later, devoted entirely to the other side of the conflict.

Not a sequel, but a companion piece — a parallaquel, if you like. And a movie that’s considerably superior to Flags Of Our Fathers. This is partly because, given the shift of perspective, it feels fresher. But mainly it’s because the story’s simply better. Where Flags’ plot meant constant hopping from the battle itself to the flag-raisers’ publicity tour to modern-day segments, Letters is tight and focused, both feet planted firmly in the island’s black sand, with restrained use of flashback to flesh out key characters.

The Japanese half of the story is also more inherently dramatic. Android sms transfer download. With no air or naval support, Iwo Jima’s defenders were vastly outnumbered, not to mention scantly provisioned, and facing the full, hi-tech might of the US war machine. Furthermore, they were all men who were told they’d be meeting their end on this unhospitable, sulphurous spit of volcanic rock — and assured that it was an honour for them to do so. They were expected to hold out for no more than five days.

Letters From Iwo Jima Cast

Under the sly command of Lt. General Kuribayashi (Ken Watanabe), who’d lived with and befriended Americans before the War, and who thought up the controversial tactic of digging into the rock and carving a network of tunnels and 5,000-odd caves, they held out for 35. As the monstrous American force approaches and commences belching its deadly hail of fire and lead, we view the inexorable disintegration of Japanese resistance via a handful of compelling points of view. Most of the runtime is devoted to the opposite ends of the military hierarchy. At one, we have Watanabe’s Kuribayashi, a man of unflinching purpose, nonconformist strategies and paradoxical ideals, who will reflect with misty eyes on his happy days carousing with the American brass, then bark an order that not one man on his side is permitted to die without first killing ten Yanks.