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Article: The other side of the battle.(Film)(Letters from Iwo Jima)(Movie review)
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- Quadrant
- Article date:
- April 1, 2007
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A GENERAL FLIES IN to take command of an isolated garrison. In spite of opposition from by-the-book officers on his staff he alters the strategy, telling his men, "No one is to die until they kill ten enemy soldiers." Scenes like this can be found in hundreds of American war films. But in Clint Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima, the general is the real-life commander-in-chief of Iwo Jima, Tadamichi Kuribayashi (Ken Watanabe) and Letters is the first US film to be told from an entirely Japanese perspective with a Japanese cast speaking their own language. It was shot back-to-back with Flags of Our Fathers, Eastwood's exploration of the campaign from the points of view of ...
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