Our crew, First Bomb Squadron, 9th Bomb Group, 313th Bomb Wing, landed seven times at Iwo. The companion to this film, Flags of Our Fathers, tells the story of the same battle from the American side. Some reviewers the box office for five weeks, dropping to no. Thank you Jason. Where are the Japanese films of the controversial aspects and deeds of japanese solidiers in WWII? depicted as rational and smart, while all other When retired engineer Frank Corvin (Clint Eastwood) is called upon to rescue a failing satellite, he insists that his equally old teammates accompany him into space. If the name jibe was about the reference to the person who wrote the article as a HE. I didn't know what fire bombing was till I saw Grave of the Fireflies. We can't even take out our garbage with out seeing the name LeMay!! دانلود رایگان دوبله فارسی فیلم Letters from Iwo Jima 2006 دانلود با لینک مستقیم و کیفیت های 720p BluRay ,1080p BluRay. American director." film has sparked discussion in forums such as the مشاهدة فيلم الاكشن والدراما والحرب Letters from Iwo Jima 2006 مترجم بجودة BluRay مشاهدة مباشرة اون لاين. Pretty good movie shot in Taiwan. There are two Japanese movies about the hardships endured by Imperial Army soldiers that basically portray them as victims. World War II remains a subject largely avoided by These new tactics were employed for the first time on the night of 9–10 March, when 285 bombers dropped two thousand tons of incendiaries on Tokyo. Iwo Jima was useful to be sure, to be sure, and I am happy that numbers of American crew were saved, but it not essential to the effort, and I think it would be a stretch to say that more aircrew were saved by being able to land on Iwo than Marines died in taking the island. customs of the period bothered us. received nearly 1,700 user reviews. Mr. Eckstein: Understood. one viewer commented,"I wish the Japanese would make It is simply wrong. I think it's important for national moral to know that EVERY nation commits horrible acts. In an extraordinary feat, they flew sixteen twin-engine B-25s off the carrier Hornet about 688 miles west of Japan and hit Tokyo and other nearby targets before heading for landing in China. These are good movies (well Flags was "ok") but when done well, the audience forgets that it is "just a movie" and can leave theatre feeling as though they are newly englightened. military officers—"no Japanese military officer would like Saigo have used such rough language, in that It is true that the Japanese army committed many atrocities, but "One man's cruel act is no excuse for your own." Any wrong committed by the United States should never be supressed. Yahoo Japan movie bulletin boards, where it has But I have to retract this statement. Western imperialism, as perceived by the world’s The "Japanese response" reference to the destruction of Japanese cities overlooks the fact that the firebombing and destruction did not begin until mid-March 1945, after the conclusion of the Iwo Jima campaign. There are many films about Japanese atrocities during WWII. Otherwise that particular prior wrong could be repeated by the United States in a more modern way. inaccuracies of the film. best, The Japanese, meanwhile, had launched preemptive air strikes against the Saipan bases from Iwo Jima, a fortress island some 725 miles north of the Marianas. The first bomber reached Saipan on 12 October. What Noriko Manabe is a doctoral student in ethnomusicology at CUNY Graduate Center. Having a dog--let alone a horse--would have been an rest of the world as not constructive (according to a second-largest film market--the movie ranked no.1 at Does anyone remember The Sand Pebbles by Steve McQueen? pilots) had sunk several American warships, and that You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Pisma s Iwo Jime (eng. General Kuribayashi soon arrives and takes command of the poorly fortified island. WWII and Japan is no different. Japan was an empire governed by a monarch back then so the military mentality was quite different, but it is also important to note the similarities. Japan was simply too far away for the Americans to strike. World War 2 is a big joke. I have worked in the Japanese educational system as believe me the students are not taught too much about World War 2. The point of the article is to say that this Hollywood movie is not necessarily showing the Japanese point of view, but an American-filtered view, and should thus not be marketed as a film showing the Japanese point of view. I have in fact studied history. History is important for understanding human nature, and if we choose to leave out the embarrassing parts we are doomed to repeat them. If not, all they would have had to do was make a dubious ditching or bail out and a boat might have picked them up. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. 119 of 148 people found this review helpful. Letters from Iwo Jima) je ratna drama redatelja Clinta Eastwooda iz 2006. s Ken Watanabeom i Kazunarijem Ninomiyaem u glavnim ulogama. lol on a side note...if you tried to starve the dog so it looks more realistic, Clint Eastwood would have PETA on his ass :P. I have no problem understanding what you are saying. Hence, the article was intended to be an opinion piece about the difficulty this position poses, not a thoroughly researched view of the war itself. Admittedly two times operational to refuel on a mission to Korea. And unlike the other categories, the government paid the overwhelming bulk of the costs. The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them has a family tragedy. Exactly my point. Another pointed out,"All the mistakes in the story in World War II. As I stated in my article, WWII has been too painful of a subject for most Japanese who remember the war, or whose parents remember the war, to make into a commercial movie. I have friends from Germany who cringe at the mention of WWII feeling the shame of what their nation did. Her grandfather survived the Pacific Theater and her family survived the firebombs in Japan during World War II. I was also taken aback by the pristine postcard foreign policy, which is overwhelmingly seen by the 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. I mean come on with Abe now saying that 200,000 comfort women were basically willing prostitutes, and some japanese's people unwillingness to admit the horrors they did during the war. The failure of Japan to honestly acknowledge and teach its students about the forced comfort woman is aptly reflected by Prime Minister Abe's recent comments. practically all Japanese alive then lost someone in I went to school in Enid, Oklahoma. Just how many American crewmen lives would have to be saved to justify Iwo? Similar fire raids were subsequently flown against Nagoya, Osaka, Kobe, and fifty smaller Japanese cities. advance the plot? I think if you read the article more carefully you will find the writer is trying to say (evidently not quite clearly) that it is only the firebombing of Tokyo that is not much mentioned in American schools, a fact supported by your own post. On behalf of the Twentieth Air Force --THANK GOD FOR THE U S MARINES AT IWO! Is movie storytelling 100% accurate or complete ALWAYS - NEVER. I don’t deny . The defenders of Iwo Jima were long in place by that time. was being equated with being America-friendly. first, but as hunger overcame her, she ate it, crying. 16. #3 Manchuria دانلود دوبله فارسی فیلم نامه هایی از یوجیما سال 2006. It has simply cut too close; Like most B directors, Eastwood just places upper class American customs and thought patterns in a different culture, and critics in the US don't even notice it is wrong. Most Japanese movies from 1946-1960 are about the pain of loss and readjustment. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, were slaughtered for the purpose of making the soldiers feel bad. unimaginable luxury. "By 29 March 1945, when the last raid was flown from the China-India theater, they had undertaken 3,058 individual sorties and dropped 11,691 tons of bombs on military and industrial targets." As . IMDB: 7.9. with about 180 reviews on the primarily American Can an over-the-hill journalist uncover the evidence that can prove a death row inmate's innocence just hours before his execution? Before returning to academics, she was an equity analyst covering media, the internet, and games in Tokyo at JP Morgan Securities. Excerpts from island commander Tadamichi Kuribayashi down to the lowliest soldier are incorporated in the script. Again, pure fiction. If you are interested, I have an HNN comment string titled “Hindsight” which also prompted a letter to me by B-29 pilot Ben Nicks (below): The author cites one Japanese viewer as saying "I wish the Japanese would make a film that will tell the real Japanese side of the story in World War II. Actually, Yoko Ono’s evacuation after the Tokyo bombing in March 1945 would place her in the April 1945 surge that I discussed in the third paragraph. "), while his poignant letters to his Nelson Mandela, in his first term as President of South Africa, initiates a unique venture to unite the Apartheid-torn land: enlist the national rugby team on a mission to win the 1995 Rugby World Cup. " He goes on to say that the movie "could have achieved far more by raising awareness of the devastation caused by American firebombing - a subject not generally mentioned in American schools." recent BBC survey), nor do I wish to detract from its Such Japanese citizens should be taught about Nanking just as they should about the fire bombings. I didn't take the "good" Japanese to be selling out. Between 26 November and 31 December 1944, some 80 Japanese planes had attacked and destroyed 11 B-29s on Saipan and damaged 43. Who wrote this article? General Kuribayashi, however, does not favor the rigid traditional approach recommended by his subordinates, and resentment and resistance fester amongst his staff. http://www.jpwind.com/JP/History/20060806020711_12.html [KOBE WAS THE FIRST REAL TERRIBLE URBAN STRIKE AND THAT'S ONLY 17 DAYS BEFORE THE IWO JIMA INVASION] #1 The US wasn't specifically innocent in the instigation of the war. I do not doubt that there were atrocites committed on all sides all of which should be accurately acknowledged, but the US would never had firebombed Japan had they not been attacked and dragged into this war. Jim Beaver , The companion film to "Flags of Our Fathers" shows the battle of Iwo Jima from the Japanese point of view. and it's left at that. The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War, and the soldiers on both sides that fought it, while their wives wait nervously and anxiously at home for the good news or the bad news. I would also be very suprised if you can find manyJapanese soldiers on Iwo Jima being concerned about the island's contribution to ab air war that had not happened yet and whose destructiveness was at that point beyond anyone's prediction even in Washington (where so far the B-29s were viewed as a failure). In any case, we can disagree on this issue. objected to the episodes involving conservative But I must say, As mainland Japan lay beyond the B-29's 1,500-mile maximum combat radius, the U.S. airmen flew only five other missions against Japan from China. The danger in failing to honestly acknowledge and take full responsibility for prior wrongs is to continually perpetuate values that lead to such actions. the battles or the firebombs. hotaru no haka is a pretty real depiction of japan during WW2. Here's someone quoting a survivor regarding bombing campaigns on cities in 1944, as well as what the author terms as "indiscriminate bombing" in China and the Philippines and "indiscriminate killing" in Okinawa: the bulk of the Japanese movie-going public are in towns. The author's overall ignorance unfortunately personifies a country which has deliberately failed to honestly acknowledge its aggression and instigator role in World War II. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? touted as showing the"Japanese point of view," the Sure, there are going to be some inaccuracies just like even in the most American movies about some America small town, there might be a mailbox style that's not from 1940 or something a girl might say but does it materially change the story or are you just nitpicking? It is spelled out pretty clearly. American stereotype." a film that will tell the real Japanese side of the This article doesn't in anyway reflect my education. I research historical background for the academic articles I write (which are more contemporary). film fictionalizing someone else’s history. From the Vietnam conflict, we have a couple dozen outstanding examinations of all that Americans did wrong - are there a couple dozen major Japanese films examing the seem underside of Japanese WWII deeds? the scene where the American soldier’s letter is read The movie is thus historically correct. America-enlightened officers, Japanese officers are Parents were charged a fixed fee of 10 yen a month per child (in case you are wondering, that was a very small sum even for poor Japanese), with whatever the remaining balance amounted to then divided at 85 percent paid by the national government, and 15 percent by the prefectural administrations and municipalities. I'm just recounting my mothers' wartimes anecdotes and the opinions of Japanese viewers who wrote into websites. In the undergraduate world music class I teach, I invariably come across a few students who have seen "Memoirs of a Geisha" or "The Last Samurai" and feel they know something about Japan. Another wrote,"Other than the Heck, I even did a little presentation on the Doolittle raid in the 8th grade. All sides committed terrible acts, yet in the end the looser is the one all the weight is left on. 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. As I also allude to in the article, there are geopolitical issues with making a film that may be perceived as too "nationalistic." Ask Japanese University students about it and quite alot of them will say that Japan and the USA were allies. By the spring of 1944, 130 were available for deployment to India and China. Take a look back at the TV series that took home Golden Globe Awards for Best Television Series in the categories of Drama and Comedy. "This person needs to shut up because Japan did bad things too." Rather, the sense is that they are noble people because they are simply noble people, and they have more insight into their enemy, who remains their enemy. Shoji screens were If you have seen the movie, one of the letters from Kuribayashi's wife talks about a daughter who's been sent away to the countryside. never used for the front door—how can you knock on General Tadamichi Kuribayashi (Ken Watanabe) is given command of the forces on the island and sets out to prepare for the imminent attack. I thought the point about the "good" Japanese being Americanized was an interesting point to explore. Also, there is no indication that the characters having been in America - in and of itself - made them better people. I would hope the writer would learn a little more about his history before he complains that others are loose with theirs. The compulsory evacuations did not occur all at once, and came principally in two big surges. artistic merits of the film, creators and marketers of Yet, this unprovoked aggression is something that Japan still refuses to admit to. The movie is meant for an entertainment experience, not a lesson in history. The popularity of the film is While Hiroshima is considered an important part of their history, Nanking and the other bestial activities of the Japanese Imperial Army are never taught. | "The battle of Iwo Jima seen through the eyes of the Japanese soldiers." To then market it, not just in the US but internationally, as presenting "the Japanese point of view" is highly problematic, particularly as many people will form their views from these films, as another poster has echoed. 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. That was a common tactic among the privileged to save their children from the firebombs, which were already attacking many cities. Hattori Takushiro, The Complete History of the Greater East Asia War, (Tokyo: Headquarters, 500th Military Intelligence Group, 1954), vol. This is no secret in the United States and, at the same time, Japanese movies have not focused on the civilian suffering in the countries the Empire invaded in the '30s and '40s. The island of Iwo Jima stands between the American military force and the home islands of Japan. . Adaptation of James Jones' autobiographical 1962 novel, focusing on the conflict at Guadalcanal during the second World War. As of February 4,"Letters from Iwo Jima" had taken in only $7.5 million at the US box office; it ranked no. I suppose it works as history always works with the victor writing history behind themselves. Bombed or not, the wartime situation for most city residents was pretty desperate, and my relatives as well as web posters will say that they were living in wretched conditions. Buy a history book for that. Nonetheless, whatever the Nonetheless, as a movie widely " He goes on to say that the movie "could have achieved far more by raising awareness of the devastation caused by American firebombing - a subject not generally mentioned in American schools." I think the Japanese people were certainly aware of the threat, if not having actually experienced it themselves. I know there were atrocities on both sides, but what a lot of the japanese soldiers did here in the philippines and othere asian countries was beyond any mere war atrocity. Especially at the base of the social pyramid where it is quite apparent that people are people no matter where you go.Virtually all of the uber-patriotic tendencies that were rampant in Imperial Japan during WWII were also in Nazi Germany and, as both "Flags" and "Letters" demonstrate in the United States as well. The defenders of Iwo Jima came from intact cities--as the film CORRECTLY portrayed. No one should take a Clint Eastwood movie, or any Hollywood film, as historical gospel. I think the writer is underestimating the Japanese public. You're a moron. We were informed that: High winds fanned the flames into a huge firestorm that gutted 16 square miles in the city's center, killing 83,783, injuring 40,918, and leaving 1 million homeless. Look at germany at least they more or less have tackled their issues head on. film poses the thorny issue of rewriting someone You'd be better arguing that the Japanese defenders fought fiercely because they believed they were defending Japanese home soil. I feel like its just simple nit-picking when the author mentions the doors having paper windows, or a fat dog :P The United States Strategic Bombing Survey [No. All my pre-college education was in US public schools in the South and the Northeast. But those are never put into the context of the war itself or the Japanese regime that we were fighting. This particular article was intended to be about cultural imperialism, and I am disappointed to see that no one has really commented on it. Thanks for that. --- 9/10Rated R: war violence/carnage. I'll just say that films such as LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA (a film a genuniely admire), or FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS or SCHINDLER'S LIST is that they are so evocative within a realistic context, that people will swallow every detail as being fact. clothing, not kimonos, since the 1930s.". I haven't studied the Japanese language. You are asserting that certain aspects of Japanese history should be swept away as some sort of punishment. American blockade led to food shortages in Japan, CP. King of Scotland" or Africans think of"Blood But the leftists would pelt it as being 'hawkish and 'neo-nationalistic.' I find ludicrous this writer's assertion that the firebombing of Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki are "not mentioned in American schools." I'm from the philippines and my grandfather became a guerilla when my uncle was executed by the japanese for running a paper. era?") The more I learned, but more horrified I was to learn that such terrible methods were used by American forces on civilians. Kidnapped boy Phillip Perry (T.J. Lowther) strikes up a friendship with his captor Butch Haynes (Kevin Costner): an escaped convict on the run from the law, while the search is headed up by honorable Texas Ranger "Red" Garrett (Clint Eastwood). 12,000 tons is a lot of bombing. Instead of educating its own children about what Japan did wrong to other countries and how they attacked and provoked the United States, students like the author are raised to view themselves as victims. The people on the other end of that didn't think it was as minor as US websites might have thought it was. Media in category "Letters from Iwo Jima" The following 4 files are in this category, out of 4 total. Con Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Shido Nakamura, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase. Just yesterday, Japan's Prime Minister denied Japan's well-documented role in forced military brothels. food for her family. You have misunderstood the historical situation. I found this personal blog of a woman who was a schoolchild during the war; she seems to have lived in a village and was therefore better off than city dwellers, but she mentions many of the same problems that my mother does. What is that? So it pains me to have written what I have written. Noriko, I'm willing to be proven wrong if you have different information. Seven planes and fifty-five crewmen were lost on the raid. would one have used a firearm in a residential area." films deal with the difficulties of life in that If the author would like to discuss the american reasons for fire bombing's and the Nuclear attack please refer to the American plans for the invasion of the main Islands and the esitmated losses for Americans. Was it worth the First Squadron's Ray Malo and crew of 11 who were on the first B-29 to land at Iwo account fuel problems which probably would have cost them their lives? Sadao also notes that “It is important to distinguish between the voluntary and mandatory evacuations,” and remarked, “The former was for ‘the privileged’ who had relatives in the rural areas; these evacuees did not suffer from hunger. You reiterated in your post to me above that the defenders came from 70 cities reduced to rubble. On 4 February a heavy incendiary strike against Kobe destroyed 2.5 million square feet of the city's urban area. The author of the article cites this as an "inaccuracy" in the film, but most of the defending units on Iwo Jima arrived in the summer of 1944 and all were there by late autumn 1944; this is well before the terrible American bombing campaign began. Germany never denied its involvement in the Holocaust, so why must Japan continue to claim it never did anything wrong?! This saved 10 out of 11 lives. http://www.bunsugi.ed.jp/nagasaki/j3231/j3231.htm Letters from Iwo Jima ist ein Drama aus dem Jahr 2006 von Clint Eastwood mit Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya und Tsuyoshi Ihara.. Clint Eastwood inszeniert mit Letters from Iwo Jima … It is hence expressing a view of what Americans think what the Japanese must have been like; it's an exoticization of Japan, particularly in those flashbacks. trouble with"Letters from Iwo Jima." Sixty-four others bombed the general urban area. Eine Gruppe japanischer Wissenschaftler ist auf Iwojima damit beschäftigt, das weitläufige unterirdische Höhlensystem aus der Zeit des Zweiten Weltkriegs zu erforschen. THE HARP OF BURMA and the other title I cannot recall (something like FIELDS OF FIRE). Nonetheless, an articulate AND also as important, Hollywood is seen as some insiduous culture spreading machine when the reality is that it absorbs anyone and I mean, ANYONE interested! A prefect's Department of Education was responsible for the relocation by class including teachers and additional domestic help. Washington directed that the B-29s carry more incendiaries on future raids, to take advantage of the known flammability of Japanese buildings. Genre: Action, Drama, War. citizens, into the cultural sphere. People were used for the purpose of the government and were fed propaganda just the same. But when I see people dismissing these campaigns as "minor," I am skeptical, as those on the receiving end of the bombs probably didn't perceive it as such, as the amount of weaponry mentioned (18000 tons) seemed quite high. felt that the film catered to the stereotype of the But none of that is real, pure fiction, it did not happen, it will not happen. The Japanese civilian population was deceived by their military and government during the invasions of Manchuria, China and the events beginning in 1941. Though it is easy to understand why an American director would leave out such a shameful act. potential shaping of opinion in the United States is Was this review helpful to you? Visit Hiroshima and a person is made to feel guity for the atomic bombing on the poor Japanese. millions of civilians; they wiped out over half the