Well acted, thought-provoking, slightly daring and touching as well.

I realize this hasn't been much of a review, but it was a movie that got me thinking. It's just a bad business and ideally we'll have a lot less of them once we realize that the poor bastards on the other side are probably just like the poor bastards on our side. That's whats happening now, and that's what always happens in war. It's the hardworking men and women with families that suffer. Instead, in my opinion, it shows that even a just war is completely absurd and that the people who are hurt by such a war are never the evil mother f****** who started it. Some could, and probably have thought of this movie as being almost apologetic for the Japanese in WWII. Showing the other side is sort of a risky step by Mr.

And, if you're going to point to any war as being a 'Just War' then it would be this one. Sure, in war there are always bad things done even by the side in the right. I'm of the opinion that the allies were on the side of good. WWII wasn't the kind of war that had much moral ambiguity to it like say, any war since. The reason you never see any movies from that point of view is because the Japanese were the bad guys. It never really occurred to me that anyone would ever think to film a WWII movie from the Japanese perspective and once I realized that I was suddenly intrigued. There have been so many good WWII movies that it feels like I've seen every angle you could take on the war of wars that any other movie on the subject would seem like a cliche or a retread.Īfter about five minutes I realized that this movie was entirely from the perspective of Japanese soldiers. I'm sure I can't be the only one that has it. I vaguely remember hearing it was pretty good and I knew Clint Eastwood was directing so that made it worth a shot despite my World War II movie fatigue. I hadn't really heard much about Letters from Iwo Jima when I turned it on. Warning : This movie is only supposed to be available

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