Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 141m
Director: Clint Eastwood
Cast: Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara
Synopsis:
As he arrives on the Japanese island to take charge of its defence before the inevitable American assault, General Kirobayashi looks back over his experience of the US and strives to be as humane a warrior for his own troops as his steely code of honour will allow.
Review:
An extraordinary film to have been made entirely from the Japanese perspective by an American studio (Warners in conjunction with Amblin'). The letters of the title are a neat flashback and linking device, as well as giving a whiff of authenticity, and the bleached colour visuals offer a potent view of the location, with its volcanic soil half a place of tranquility, half a circle of hell.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 141m
Director: Clint Eastwood
Cast: Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara
Synopsis:
As he arrives on the Japanese island to take charge of its defence before the inevitable American assault, General Kirobayashi looks back over his experience of the US and strives to be as humane a warrior for his own troops as his steely code of honour will allow.
Review:
An extraordinary film to have been made entirely from the Japanese perspective by an American studio (Warners in conjunction with Amblin'). The letters of the title are a neat flashback and linking device, as well as giving a whiff of authenticity, and the bleached colour visuals offer a potent view of the location, with its volcanic soil half a place of tranquility, half a circle of hell.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 141m
Director: Clint Eastwood
Cast: Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara
Synopsis:
As he arrives on the Japanese island to take charge of its defence before the inevitable American assault, General Kirobayashi looks back over his experience of the US and strives to be as humane a warrior for his own troops as his steely code of honour will allow.
Review:
An extraordinary film to have been made entirely from the Japanese perspective by an American studio (Warners in conjunction with Amblin'). The letters of the title are a neat flashback and linking device, as well as giving a whiff of authenticity, and the bleached colour visuals offer a potent view of the location, with its volcanic soil half a place of tranquility, half a circle of hell.