Letters From Iwo Jima Full Movie English

Romeo and juliet act 3 study guide answers teacher web. This is the second of Clint Eastwood's double bill of films about Iwo Jima, although the tone and colour palette is so similar to last year's Flags Of Our Fathers that it could easily be the second half of the same movie. Returning to the pivotal second world war battle, this time from a Japanese perspective, Eastwood has fashioned a quietly powerful indictment of the war's wanton waste, and anchored it with a fearsome performance from Ken Wanatabe.

Where Flags of our Fathers dealt with the public relations story behind Iwo Jima, Letters is more closely focussed on the battle itself, and leaves the island only in a few brief flashbacks. It's a better movie for that, as well as the decision to play everything in Japanese with English subtitles.

What we get, in this long, sober and sad movie, is a bitter conflict between modern warfare and an enshrined ideology that regards dying in battle as an honourable sacrifice. Wanatabe's commanding officer is a trained strategist, but he is frustrated by his officers, who will commit suicide by hand grenade at the drop of a hat, thus damaging the army's already slim chance of victory against the US. Caught in the middle of this conflict are the frightened grunts, who mostly just want to get home to their wives.

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Eastwood directs his performers with great skill, and brings a weary, astringent eye to the carnage that unfolds on Iwo Jima's blackened sands. Put the two films together and you get an involving wartime epic that also serves as an indictment of the lies governments will tell to keep their soldiers fighting. Timely, that.

10th Anniversary of the Movie. Letters from Iwo Jima Marines Landing on the Beach First Battle Scene (german and english subtitles). This is a great war movie” from Director “Clint Eastwood” after watching the special features, he really got a lot out these actors, “Letters from Iwo Jima” show you how cruel war is, the Japanese show you what pride and Honor mean to them, they would take there own lives for their pride.

In Japanese with English subtitles.

Tales From Iwo Jima is released in UK cinemas on Friday 23rd February 2007.