War has good soldiers and bad..This movie portrayed the good side..thats all..You dont need to mix in or link other 'bad' historical events to this..Its like bringing up the 'nazis' every time you talk about germany..
@legomyaago Im sorry to hear about your aunt, my mom is from okinawa and during the war the japanese did some mean shit to the civilians, but jap is offensive to some people so i would just call them japanese
during ww2 the japs raped and killed my aunt... when my mom told me in 2222nd grade i thought japs were always mean... then my teacher turned out to be a japanese and i was amazed because that was the best school year of my life
Japan bought this on to themselves. Are we suppose to feel sad because they were defending their nation? Maybe they should have thought about that before they invaded others in the most brutal and criminal manner.
@Wellpinit i dont see nobody here asking anyone to feel sad for us we put a good fight to the americans we make them fight for every inch of land and about the brutal and criminal manner well u know about war propaganda and looks like still working good we make alot bad things but it wasnt like the war propagando say
Still you americans feel sad when american soldiers are killed in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan when the same soldiers are the invaders in those countries?
Those nukes were a shame to humanity. Not did the USA choose to hit the militairy of Japan, instead they just nuked over 100.000 innocent civilians. I'm not ever going to call the USA heroic, they have done more pain than peace.
Sure Japanese military regime had wrong ideals during that time, I shall not deny that.
@NeoTomoyakun In a way, those two nukes saved us (both sides I mean) If America would have invaded us, we would have fought to the death and also would have had to fight the Russians from the North....
@AmzitheSoldier true we start the war we attack the americans and they counter attack was the right to do that and about the chinese dont trust everything what the commies say
I dont blame him for crying. Must have felt a sudden weight of Japan resting on his shoulders, as if he is the sole protector left, and at such a heavy duty, and a realization that the task ahead is inhumanely difficult, you cannot help but cry.
If I was in kuribayashi's shoes and I heard the children sing, I would never surrender, because I would know my goal is to protect those children from the horrors of war
SHUT THE HELL UP! seriously these stupid comments make no difference to what happened. Americans won. japaneese lost. So why the hell do you keep saying "americas more superior" or "japan sucks" or vice versa? ok so the japaneese lost WHO CARES all that matters is that either side lost THOUSANDS and to be honest america didnt win! because is it winning when you loose thousands of men whose families wont see them again? if it is then i wouldnt want to win a war!
This scene in the movie caught me off guard. I was already in tears knowing they were doomed to begin with, since they ran out of food and water but when this song played, I was breaking down. I can feel the pride for their homeland. They're not dying for nothing, they're fighting for the families sake. BEAUTIFUL!!! Clint Eastwood's BEST!!!
I have to agree with sato I mean it's kinda weird for me saying being American but if I had a choice of who's side to be on knowing what's gonna happen I'd be with japan but yet again I'm white so I wouldn't think they want me to be there but atleast you can say avacuate the people hear and there that way they don't have to die
i promised myself that.. id only listen to this song when i watch the movie, and not listen to it alot on youtube, bc i dont want it to lose its meaning.. i want to cry every time i hear it in th emovie
today i broke that promise.. i listened to it once today -without- watching the movie..
Apparently this actually happened. Allied radio interceptors/translators on American ships supposedly cried hearing this because they knew the Japanese were ready to fight so hard for the island and their country but it would be a lost cause as the Americans were too powerful and consequently an extremely high unnecessary number of Japanese would lose their lives.
August 19,1945 front page of both the tribune and the Washington Times-Herald MacArthur when interviewed acknowledged its authenticity-a general making one last dash for fame?or an idiotic liar?either way its a wonderful yet upsetting scene in the movie, ty for the upload indipuk
"though the events of Hiroshima and Nagasaki hastened the Japanese decision to surrender, unconditionally. (had the commonwealth army invaded the Japanese mainland, we would have had to kill every last one of them, man, woman and child because there was no surrender in battle for the Japanese, and they held thousands of POWs as collateral to be executed if an invasion happened)"
@akropiss A life taken is a life taken, whether by a japanese or a french or a german or an american. It makes the soldier who took the innocent life just as guilty. It doesn't matter about the 'side' the soldier was in. THAT is my point.
@akropiss Yeah, yeah, like the allied soldiers never committed atrocities themselves.
And my great-grandfather was an allied soldier, and he told my grandfather about many atrocities he saw committed by both sides. It gave him a very cynical view of anything 'good' in a war.
conscripts.And after all they were correct, the island was the final barrier stopping the America from carrying out two most pointless atrocities ever in order to test their new toys-also America were offered unconditional surrender by the Japanese before Iwo Jima and only accepted it after a bloody amphibious assault and two atom bombs
the Japanese people were starved if their men refused to be conscripted, atrocities were committed but on BOTH sides-the Chinese and Japanese have been at each others throats since before the Romans and no doubt the peoples liberation army has members who would torture and murder innocent Japanese and the same with any country in the world(take us British during the Boer war)-this is no excuse but should be taken into account when judging the defendants of Iwo Jima who were as darthroden said...
The more I learn about this Pacific War, the more I come to realize the tragedy of the Japanese position. Japan was fighting this war as a matter of national honor, and to protect their nation's right to sovereign sustainability. The most affective tools in war: Honor and Fear.
The HONOR to fight to the death to protect one's homeland. The FEAR that failure will result in total annihilation.
In their hearts this war was a justified defense of the Empire.
Maybe from their perspective, however I think the people the Japanese Empire persecuted in China, Burma, Korea and The Philippines would probably say different about the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.
The Japanese considered all other orientals their inferiors and committed atrocities. Granted they are far from the only nation guilty of aggressive wars of conquest based on the supposed inferiority of those they sought to control.
Now then that does not mean I do not feel some sympathy for the Japanese soldiers on Iwo Jima. These were mostly conscripted men who sought only to serve their country and return to their loved ones heroes, or simply just to survive the war itself.
These particular men were not the same monsters who committed the Baatan Death Marches, or the rapes of Chinese women and committed horrible atrocities in Burma and The Philippines.
@MrLatino1995 You don't know every Japanese person who was fighting in the war so don't group them all together as wanting to mess with the US Your account says you're 19 so you werent even alive to fight in that war. I suggest you stop posting that Bullshit
@MrLatino1995 your name says it all you fucking spic beaner who jumped the border and took it up the ass for a green card plus you're an immature pathetic child
@C45Auto hahah ahh shut up u dirt red neck ur more like the spic... ur just jealous cause redneck are worse the so called beiners... and their too pussy to join the military.. so why r u even listening to this go back to ur country cracking shit.. and i will like to point up yeh im latino but not mexican and i dint jump the border... or came illegally by a boat or w/e u think off.. so maybe u should get a job son u piece of no good red neck bastard.. get ur white power out of here, this is japs
how can anyone one think this is a good song this is my fave song but the only reason this song is in it is to show the propaganada that they used so there men would not try to surrender and to anyone who likes this song maybe you would like the hitler youth sing deucthland uber alles
The saddest thing about it is that they were still fighting for an empire who at that point was just using them as cannon fodder. They had to know by then they were screwed and that they were dying for nothing save their own peculiar sense of honor (no I don't mean that to be offensive, just strange by western standards).
The one scene that touched me in this was when the Japanese officer read the dead US Marine's letter from his mother to them.
If that one soldier's situation was any indication, then I would believe that their families would prefer their loved ones back rather than martyrs for the "glorious cause".
As long as I live, I'll never understand how this movie didn't win best picture. I've seen just about every English language war movie ever made and this is by far one of the best I've ever seen. A masterpiece.
@LevaniaDaemon The Japanese POV during WW2 was to expand an empire and enslave and kill everyone else they viewed as inferior. That IS evil. Refer to Hitler.
How dare you guys argue and talk about a race being superior or inferior over such a beautiful song and such a sad story, have you no respect for all the japanese and americans who died? clean your mouths and grow up!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"How dare you guys argue and talk about a race being superior or inferior over such a beautiful song and such a sad story, have you no respect for all the japanese and americans who died? clean your mouths and grow up!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
@DBZ1253 Not only Japanese and Americans but also people from other countries such as china korea germany and russia. Tho Americans did worse than hitler for bombing Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
@milad2007halo3 its NOT a contest over who did worse. the fact of the matter is these soldiers died for their home whether they were american, korean, japanese,or german. they all DESERVE RESPECT people on youtube should just shut up instead of arguing over who is better then who. honestly doesn't anybody have RESPECT for soldiers of ANY RACE?
You weren't there niether was I but you don't know what they did. The bomb was better if we invaded we would have lost over 1,000,000 marines and almost every Japanese person would have died fight so that they could serve the Emperor.
@milad2007halo3 so? let's throw 2 nukes on higly densly civilan populated cities, so that we may complain about japanese war crimes later, and say we are the country of freedom and right and holy and awesome? oh yes. america rules alrite >.> I FUCKING HATE YOU YANKS.
then fight for a week! instead of bombing civilians! you SHIT FUCKING ARSEGRAVEY RUNNING DAMNED CRAPDOGS >=( YOU FUCKING SUCK. Japanese respect their opponent. americans obviously dont. u arent worth japanese respect >=( wrthles sh*
@SatoTM3 you do know that the Japanese tortured and brutalised Chinese civilians for years before starting the war right? Do you hate the US because Americans murdered your dog, or because its cool to hate Americans right now. Im assuming your British or at least from that area. Our two countries are forever linked by our mutual history, and great deal is owed by both sides to each other. Try exercising tolerance once.
@SatoTM3 I'm going to assume your either British, since you write English pretty good. The Japanese fought hard and yes, it was wrong for us 'Yanks' to do that, but if we didn't, the war would have taken longer, and many more people would died, including British, American, Japanese, Russian, and so forth. The Japanese had 2 million men still left waiting to defend Japan. Also us 'Yanks' supplied the British when France fell, ever heard the Lend-lease act? Try exercising tolerance once in a while
@Eddtastic100 Actually, the Japanese were invading the Chinese at the time of the oil embargo. If Japan didn't invade China, then it wouldn't have happened. Japan then would have invaded the Dutch East Indies (Malaysia, Borneo, ect...). There's a reason why the U.S put the embargo against Japan. Before the war even started. Look up the Nanking massacre in 1937.
@TheWaarivzrach Stop talking trash about WW2, you don't know shit about what Americans did in the WW2. They could have stopped Hitler by lifting a freaking finger, they could have stopped the bombing at Pearl Harbour, they could have stopped the Japanese Empire without nukeing those towns, but they didn't, all they cared about was money, not human lives! I'm talking about the government, not normal people. STFU and listen to this song, show some respect for soldiers of any race or nationality!
@slim240293 if you're gonna throw a bomb, throw it on a MILITAIRY base with very few ppl, but NOOOOO lets just throw it at 2 fucking densly populated CIVILAN areas so that 100 years from now there are still ppl getting suicide issues bc of the pain of their skin falling off every week. >.> japanese crimes? you fucking threw 2 nukes on civilan cities, america! >.> show respect to ur former foe! what you say is right, but i think what the yanks did still wasn't the right thing to do >=(
@SatoTM3 I am a "Yank" and i agree. what we did was wrong. the imperial army (WWII) was so proud to die. it is kind of moving what these guys were willing to giv up for there country
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Yeah tell that to those Asian people that the Japanese Empire conquered. To the Japanese, other Asians....especially Philippines and Koreans and Chinese, were nothing more than inferiors.
Maybe so, but that doesn't excuse the fact that you thought of Chinese and Koreans as inferiors. So did whites, but if you are going to make an argument, you should try to have the moral high ground....Japan didn't. They were no better, only difference is Americans didn't march people to death, or make women work in brothels as prostitutes.
That's what you think today, not what Imperial Japanese policy was in the 1930s....plus I'm sure the women that Japanese troops turned into concubines would say different.
Have you ever heard the saying "When the rich rage war, it's the poor that die"? It's whats going on here. These people never wanted to take part in this. They were forced to. It was either get enlisted or you get sent to prison. And prison in these Asian countries isn't like in the US. You don't get your 3 meals a day and air conditioned prisons.
Aww.... how nice of them, but it really is striking to see the pain on the faces of those men, it is both inspiring yet it gives a sense of hopelessness especially if you know the situation you were in.
What's the name of this song? And is it possible to find the japanese lyrics somewhere? I'd like to learn it since I am cosplaying a japanese character. (Well Japan from the Hetalia serie) Anyway, I looove this song. It's... a special cute song but full of hope too.
The spirit of the samurai lives in these men. For the sake of warcraftmanship and loyalty for a country and an ideal, we all should be proud of them, the heroes of Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Iejima and all other Japanese territories they fell defending.
The worst of the war was the ultimatum of President Roosevelt that asked for unconditional surrender so it motivated the strong defense of Germany and Japan, and probably Italy.
Oh, I'm not judging the man - he had an election to think about, and public opinion must always outweigh morality in politics. However, if awareness that it was Japan and Japan alone that suffered the only atomic barrage in military history - at the hands of American airmen safe in their cockpits with their air supremacy, in an archipelago surrounded, embargoed, diplomatically isolated and starving - counts as "clueless idiocy," then I for one am proud to be called a clueless idiot.
OK oyu President of the United States. You have 2 choices either drop atomic bombs on Japan, or risk thousands if not millions of American lives by invading Japan. Truman chose the logical choice and clueless idiots like you think that it would have been better to lose American lives in a war which would last anothr year. And i bet if we invaded Japan you would be right here explaining how you think it would be better if we did drop the bombs.
this film is sad it shows us how bad royalty are-the japanese people were forced to believe that the americans were monsters and that their land was being invaded-the japanese people were not innocent though-they slaughtered and raped in a burmese hospital they tortured pows but mostly they were normal people and fed the wrong information and undisciplined many americans would be as evil
American military intelligence was listening in, and some of the Japanese-American translators wept when the song was played. They knew the futility of it all and that these men were basically going to die for nothing.
One of the great tragedies of WW2 is that Germany and Japan continued fighting long after there was no longer any possibility of the Axis powers winning the war.
January 1945 - MacArthur forwarded to the President a Japanese offer to surrender to which was exactly what we accepted 7 months later. Had it been accepted when first offered, there would have been no heavy loss of life on Iwo Jima (over 26,033 Americans killed or wounded, approximately 21,000 Japanese killed) and Okinawa (over 39,000 U.S. dead and wounded, 109,000 Japanese dead)
Clint rools he mange to do 2 films at the same time Letter from iwo jima and Flags of our fahters he evan are useing the same scene in both films in some parts
Although I understand what you are saying,this quote 'In war truth is the first casuality' is credited to a number of people,I prefer Aeschylus,a Greek dramatist in 525 BC.I think though it is the innocent who suffer.Peace.
January 1945 - MacArthur forwarded to the President a Japanese offer to surrender to which was exactly what we accepted 7 months later. Had it been accepted when first offered, there would have been no heavy loss of life on Iwo Jima (over 26,033 Americans killed or wounded, approximately 21,000 Japanese killed) and Okinawa (over 39,000 U.S. dead and wounded, 109,000 Japanese dead)
this is what i love about youtube. if i want to hear the song the japanese children sang in letters from iwo jima then i can. immediately.haha thanks for uploading
Does any1 know the Japanese lyrics to this song? Preferably in romaji since I can't read kanji, hiragana or katakana. 2 second jaws663,yes it is an original or acutual, use whatever word of those 2 u like, Japanese warsong from WWII that's titeled "Iwo Jima Defense" if I'm not totally wrong, at least thats what they told on behind the scenes on the "Letters from Iwo Jima"-DVD. Regarding the Japanese lyrics, the 1 who knows them, or can tip me off where 2 find them, can send a PM 2 me
War has good soldiers and bad..This movie portrayed the good side..thats all..You dont need to mix in or link other 'bad' historical events to this..Its like bringing up the 'nazis' every time you talk about germany..
tripper85 1 month ago 2
Hirohito should have been hung like his good pal Tojo.
Strategichan425 1 month ago 4
@legomyaago Im sorry to hear about your aunt, my mom is from okinawa and during the war the japanese did some mean shit to the civilians, but jap is offensive to some people so i would just call them japanese
gamergeektwo 2 months ago
umm grade not grad.
legomyaago 2 months ago
umm i meant 2nd grad... sorry!
legomyaago 2 months ago
during ww2 the japs raped and killed my aunt... when my mom told me in 2222nd grade i thought japs were always mean... then my teacher turned out to be a japanese and i was amazed because that was the best school year of my life
legomyaago 2 months ago
@425jeonsa Agreed. It's a disgrace he was allowed to retain his position, let alone visit allied countries later in his life as a guest >:-(
TalonMercenary 2 months ago
@425jeonsa i think so too that mother fucker destroy the empire he was suppost to kill himself but the only thing he did was to keep his ass on power
nanox2011 2 months ago
Anyone know this song ??
so beautiful
MrGummyMaci 3 months ago
So sad.
vakasim 3 months ago
Japan bought this on to themselves. Are we suppose to feel sad because they were defending their nation? Maybe they should have thought about that before they invaded others in the most brutal and criminal manner.
Wellpinit 3 months ago
@Wellpinit i dont see nobody here asking anyone to feel sad for us we put a good fight to the americans we make them fight for every inch of land and about the brutal and criminal manner well u know about war propaganda and looks like still working good we make alot bad things but it wasnt like the war propagando say
nanox2011 2 months ago
@Wellpinit
Still you americans feel sad when american soldiers are killed in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan when the same soldiers are the invaders in those countries?
CarolineOskarsson 2 months ago
@Wellpinit Agreed.
TheWehrwolfe 6 days ago
CLINT EASTWOOD, YOU'RE THE GREATEST DIRECTOR EVER!
THANKS FOR ALL YOUR BEAUTIFUL AND WISE MOVIES!
WorldWar2Boy 5 months ago
In war there are no good guys, only murderers.
NeoTomoyakun 6 months ago
Those nukes were a shame to humanity. Not did the USA choose to hit the militairy of Japan, instead they just nuked over 100.000 innocent civilians. I'm not ever going to call the USA heroic, they have done more pain than peace.
Sure Japanese military regime had wrong ideals during that time, I shall not deny that.
NeoTomoyakun 6 months ago
@NeoTomoyakun In a way, those two nukes saved us (both sides I mean) If America would have invaded us, we would have fought to the death and also would have had to fight the Russians from the North....
OverlordRaxusReaper 4 months ago
@NeoTomoyakun The Japanese killed more than 15 MILLION Chinese and attacked the USA, and you think we should have done nothing... Dumb European
AmzitheSoldier 3 months ago
@AmzitheSoldier true we start the war we attack the americans and they counter attack was the right to do that and about the chinese dont trust everything what the commies say
nanox2011 2 months ago
I dont blame him for crying. Must have felt a sudden weight of Japan resting on his shoulders, as if he is the sole protector left, and at such a heavy duty, and a realization that the task ahead is inhumanely difficult, you cannot help but cry.
Supduplemup 6 months ago
If I was in kuribayashi's shoes and I heard the children sing, I would never surrender, because I would know my goal is to protect those children from the horrors of war
demonhunter5502 7 months ago
SHUT THE HELL UP! seriously these stupid comments make no difference to what happened. Americans won. japaneese lost. So why the hell do you keep saying "americas more superior" or "japan sucks" or vice versa? ok so the japaneese lost WHO CARES all that matters is that either side lost THOUSANDS and to be honest america didnt win! because is it winning when you loose thousands of men whose families wont see them again? if it is then i wouldnt want to win a war!
lewi5676 8 months ago
were was the uchuu senkan yamato when evil yanks attacked on iwo jima :(
NoobSnoopy 9 months ago
To revive Japan from the earthquake, it keeps buying the made-in-Japan product.
Japan has done a large contribution to the world in the country where the technology and the culture are wonderful.
It is this time a turn that countries of the world help japan.
nano1983able 9 months ago 5
this was a good movie...i think im going to rewatch it
mookahmookah 10 months ago 11
This scene in the movie caught me off guard. I was already in tears knowing they were doomed to begin with, since they ran out of food and water but when this song played, I was breaking down. I can feel the pride for their homeland. They're not dying for nothing, they're fighting for the families sake. BEAUTIFUL!!! Clint Eastwood's BEST!!!
goe5 10 months ago
unbelievably profound...yet encouraging at the same time to see such determination in the face of certain death.
binhamster 11 months ago
that's the worst and saddest situation a man can face carrying the hope of nation over your shoulder knowing that you will fail them ; ;
Thyab 1 year ago 2
@Thyab Yeah that's sad.
bigdragon8me 1 year ago
saddest scene in the film. certainly must have been inspiring to the remaining soldiers.
Legionairius807 1 year ago
fuck war
Hardgaymachineguns 1 year ago
The nostalgia of childhood innocence against the cruel reality
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humancast 1 year ago
I do not feel sorry for the Japanese they would have nuked us the first chance they got.
SmitEvan 1 year ago
@SmitEvan the americans did...
blobperson 1 year ago
@SmitEvan That doesn't justify violence. Your ignorance is unbelievable.
fantasmalorange 1 year ago
I have to agree with sato I mean it's kinda weird for me saying being American but if I had a choice of who's side to be on knowing what's gonna happen I'd be with japan but yet again I'm white so I wouldn't think they want me to be there but atleast you can say avacuate the people hear and there that way they don't have to die
topherkid500 1 year ago
i get gossebumps when i hear this
tjynyyobama 1 year ago
i promised myself that.. id only listen to this song when i watch the movie, and not listen to it alot on youtube, bc i dont want it to lose its meaning.. i want to cry every time i hear it in th emovie
today i broke that promise.. i listened to it once today -without- watching the movie..
it was worth it =''/
SatoTM3 1 year ago
Apparently this actually happened. Allied radio interceptors/translators on American ships supposedly cried hearing this because they knew the Japanese were ready to fight so hard for the island and their country but it would be a lost cause as the Americans were too powerful and consequently an extremely high unnecessary number of Japanese would lose their lives.
C45Auto 1 year ago
God Damn, Clint Eastwood makes the most depressing movies...
JediMasterAssKicker 1 year ago
This song is real Japanese song in WWII. It has 6 verses. This movie used 1st and last verse.
macatworks 1 year ago
very f****** sad when america bombed hiroshima now were nothing but flesh and bones even im japanese
TheUndeadSgtTv 1 year ago
@Demonsawin145 i would be fine wiht a world war happening again but now we have nukes sooo there no way of a world war happening.
kaindrg 1 year ago
@kaindrg Don´t be too confident of that.
It could take you by surprise.
bogeyatyour6 1 year ago
August 19,1945 front page of both the tribune and the Washington Times-Herald MacArthur when interviewed acknowledged its authenticity-a general making one last dash for fame?or an idiotic liar?either way its a wonderful yet upsetting scene in the movie, ty for the upload indipuk
RustyNigel 1 year ago
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"though the events of Hiroshima and Nagasaki hastened the Japanese decision to surrender, unconditionally. (had the commonwealth army invaded the Japanese mainland, we would have had to kill every last one of them, man, woman and child because there was no surrender in battle for the Japanese, and they held thousands of POWs as collateral to be executed if an invasion happened)"
That's precisely why the A-Bomb wasn't needless.
Briselance 1 year ago
"Everything happens in thirds."
"Do what is right, because it is right."
imanoob4 1 year ago 3
@imanoob4 great quotes
flyus747 1 year ago
@akropiss Okay, man, you lost me on this one, though I think we're no longer really talking about the same thing.
Ares99999 1 year ago
@akropiss A life taken is a life taken, whether by a japanese or a french or a german or an american. It makes the soldier who took the innocent life just as guilty. It doesn't matter about the 'side' the soldier was in. THAT is my point.
Ares99999 1 year ago
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"It makes the soldier who took the innocent life just as guilty."
You bet it is. But well ... you gotta look at the context.
Shooting a civilian dead is bad. But what if you search the civilian's body and find that his (her) hand was packing a frag grenade ?
The thing is that you never know. Youre never, ever 100 % sure.
Briselance 1 year ago
@akropiss Yeah, yeah, like the allied soldiers never committed atrocities themselves.
And my great-grandfather was an allied soldier, and he told my grandfather about many atrocities he saw committed by both sides. It gave him a very cynical view of anything 'good' in a war.
Ares99999 1 year ago
conscripts.And after all they were correct, the island was the final barrier stopping the America from carrying out two most pointless atrocities ever in order to test their new toys-also America were offered unconditional surrender by the Japanese before Iwo Jima and only accepted it after a bloody amphibious assault and two atom bombs
RustyNigel 1 year ago
@RustyNigel
"America were offered unconditional surrender by the Japanese before Iwo Jima"
Oh yeah ? Care to prove it, mate ?
Briselance 1 year ago
the Japanese people were starved if their men refused to be conscripted, atrocities were committed but on BOTH sides-the Chinese and Japanese have been at each others throats since before the Romans and no doubt the peoples liberation army has members who would torture and murder innocent Japanese and the same with any country in the world(take us British during the Boer war)-this is no excuse but should be taken into account when judging the defendants of Iwo Jima who were as darthroden said...
RustyNigel 1 year ago
such a beautiful movie, to this day...it's the only movie that ever made me shed tears. This scene in particular got to me. Long live peace
goe5 1 year ago
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Long live Japan, fuck the US
SpainWPWW 1 year ago
@SpainWPWW Stop trolling on a nice video pendejo.
hollywood251 1 year ago 3
@hollywood251 Ho sento, no entenc res del que em dius
SpainWPWW 1 year ago
as a soldier i understands the pains of war
hanzodeeper 1 year ago
The more I learn about this Pacific War, the more I come to realize the tragedy of the Japanese position. Japan was fighting this war as a matter of national honor, and to protect their nation's right to sovereign sustainability. The most affective tools in war: Honor and Fear.
The HONOR to fight to the death to protect one's homeland. The FEAR that failure will result in total annihilation.
In their hearts this war was a justified defense of the Empire.
Redrum200proof 1 year ago
@Redrum200proof
Maybe from their perspective, however I think the people the Japanese Empire persecuted in China, Burma, Korea and The Philippines would probably say different about the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.
The Japanese considered all other orientals their inferiors and committed atrocities. Granted they are far from the only nation guilty of aggressive wars of conquest based on the supposed inferiority of those they sought to control.
darthroden 1 year ago
@darthroden
Now then that does not mean I do not feel some sympathy for the Japanese soldiers on Iwo Jima. These were mostly conscripted men who sought only to serve their country and return to their loved ones heroes, or simply just to survive the war itself.
These particular men were not the same monsters who committed the Baatan Death Marches, or the rapes of Chinese women and committed horrible atrocities in Burma and The Philippines.
They were abandoned and told to "
die with honor."
darthroden 1 year ago 2
@Mrlatino1995 your a fucking idiot do you know anything about WWII?
sniperscreed33 1 year ago
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extremly GAYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1LOL~!!!!!!!!!
fuck the japs they wanted to mess with the US so the Marine taught them a lesson Oohrah!
MrLatino1995 1 year ago
@MrLatino1995 im sure all the marines that fought in ww2 would say the same however i dont think there a bunch of disrespectable 15yr olds
Vinny86100 1 year ago
@MrLatino1995 You don't know every Japanese person who was fighting in the war so don't group them all together as wanting to mess with the US Your account says you're 19 so you werent even alive to fight in that war. I suggest you stop posting that Bullshit
hpswpotclotr 1 year ago
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m1grand70 1 year ago
@MrLatino1995 your name says it all you fucking spic beaner who jumped the border and took it up the ass for a green card plus you're an immature pathetic child
C45Auto 1 year ago
@C45Auto hahah ahh shut up u dirt red neck ur more like the spic... ur just jealous cause redneck are worse the so called beiners... and their too pussy to join the military.. so why r u even listening to this go back to ur country cracking shit.. and i will like to point up yeh im latino but not mexican and i dint jump the border... or came illegally by a boat or w/e u think off.. so maybe u should get a job son u piece of no good red neck bastard.. get ur white power out of here, this is japs
MrLatino1995 1 year ago
This is a brilliant movie, and by far, this scene is the saddest of the whole movie. It will live on as will the memory of everyone who died there.
mgbfast3rthanu 2 years ago
this song is really nice, ihe movie is brilliant as well
evilduck1000 2 years ago
When I saw this in the movie theatre, it brought me to tears.
Zhaojiangjun 2 years ago
how can anyone one think this is a good song this is my fave song but the only reason this song is in it is to show the propaganada that they used so there men would not try to surrender and to anyone who likes this song maybe you would like the hitler youth sing deucthland uber alles
brightonhamster 2 years ago
This guy is actually right. I'm not sure why someone gave his comment a thumbs down.
420Guitar420 2 years ago
@420Guitar420 thanks for agreeing with me
this is my fave film but anyone who finds it sweet
or inspireing is dumb
brightonhamster 1 year ago
@brightonhamster
The saddest thing about it is that they were still fighting for an empire who at that point was just using them as cannon fodder. They had to know by then they were screwed and that they were dying for nothing save their own peculiar sense of honor (no I don't mean that to be offensive, just strange by western standards).
The one scene that touched me in this was when the Japanese officer read the dead US Marine's letter from his mother to them.
darthroden 1 year ago 2
@darthroden
Noth quite right I think about the " dying for nothing". What about their familys?
sanbastion 1 year ago
@sanbastion
If that one soldier's situation was any indication, then I would believe that their families would prefer their loved ones back rather than martyrs for the "glorious cause".
darthroden 1 year ago
As long as I live, I'll never understand how this movie didn't win best picture. I've seen just about every English language war movie ever made and this is by far one of the best I've ever seen. A masterpiece.
420Guitar420 2 years ago 7
@420Guitar420 you should see "tae guk gi" (brotherhood of war) its also a good movie based on the korean war....
malibeatu90 2 years ago
because you dont see an inmortal amercian soldier killing asians
thats why it will never be best picture
(also, remember, japan is the evil one, it's impossible to give a movie about the japanese POV of WWI an oscar)
it would be like to give best picture to "The turtles can fly"
its about a few kids in the irak border trying to survive the american invasion
the will never give the best picture to the non amercian view
LevaniaDaemon 1 year ago
@LevaniaDaemon The Japanese POV during WW2 was to expand an empire and enslave and kill everyone else they viewed as inferior. That IS evil. Refer to Hitler.
420Guitar420 1 year ago
Yep I agree, and a film called (The Hurt Locker) got loads of oscars, WHY??? LFIJ is miles better.
happymana 1 year ago 3
That was a very well done scene...... makes you think
lacrossefan2 2 years ago 24
what is name of this song
Srbin031 2 years ago
songs for the defense of iwo jima
i guess
Wolf0300 2 years ago
How dare you guys argue and talk about a race being superior or inferior over such a beautiful song and such a sad story, have you no respect for all the japanese and americans who died? clean your mouths and grow up!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DBZ1253 2 years ago 129
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@DBZ1253
"How dare you guys argue and talk about a race being superior or inferior over such a beautiful song and such a sad story, have you no respect for all the japanese and americans who died? clean your mouths and grow up!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
+1, mate.
Briselance 1 year ago
@DBZ1253 Not only Japanese and Americans but also people from other countries such as china korea germany and russia. Tho Americans did worse than hitler for bombing Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
milad2007halo3 1 year ago
@milad2007halo3 its NOT a contest over who did worse. the fact of the matter is these soldiers died for their home whether they were american, korean, japanese,or german. they all DESERVE RESPECT people on youtube should just shut up instead of arguing over who is better then who. honestly doesn't anybody have RESPECT for soldiers of ANY RACE?
DBZ1253 1 year ago
@DBZ1253 I only respect the humans. And Planet earth is my home, which i will fight to the death and still have my human emotions.
milad2007halo3 1 year ago
You weren't there niether was I but you don't know what they did. The bomb was better if we invaded we would have lost over 1,000,000 marines and almost every Japanese person would have died fight so that they could serve the Emperor.
TheWaarivzrach 1 year ago
@TheWaarivzrach ?.....The japanese were already defeated....they would have surrendered the next week or so.
milad2007halo3 1 year ago
@milad2007halo3 so? let's throw 2 nukes on higly densly civilan populated cities, so that we may complain about japanese war crimes later, and say we are the country of freedom and right and holy and awesome? oh yes. america rules alrite >.> I FUCKING HATE YOU YANKS.
then fight for a week! instead of bombing civilians! you SHIT FUCKING ARSEGRAVEY RUNNING DAMNED CRAPDOGS >=( YOU FUCKING SUCK. Japanese respect their opponent. americans obviously dont. u arent worth japanese respect >=( wrthles sh*
SatoTM3 1 year ago
@SatoTM3 You really can't stand yanks, don't you? :)) One question, are you british, irish, australian, because you speak english pretty well? :)
slim240293 1 year ago
@SatoTM3 you do know that the Japanese tortured and brutalised Chinese civilians for years before starting the war right? Do you hate the US because Americans murdered your dog, or because its cool to hate Americans right now. Im assuming your British or at least from that area. Our two countries are forever linked by our mutual history, and great deal is owed by both sides to each other. Try exercising tolerance once.
macorrie 1 year ago
@SatoTM3 I'm going to assume your either British, since you write English pretty good. The Japanese fought hard and yes, it was wrong for us 'Yanks' to do that, but if we didn't, the war would have taken longer, and many more people would died, including British, American, Japanese, Russian, and so forth. The Japanese had 2 million men still left waiting to defend Japan. Also us 'Yanks' supplied the British when France fell, ever heard the Lend-lease act? Try exercising tolerance once in a while
Guano452 11 months ago
@Guano452 but if the americans hadnt cut off the japanese oil supply first then this wouldnt of happened
Eddtastic100 8 months ago
@Eddtastic100 Actually, the Japanese were invading the Chinese at the time of the oil embargo. If Japan didn't invade China, then it wouldn't have happened. Japan then would have invaded the Dutch East Indies (Malaysia, Borneo, ect...). There's a reason why the U.S put the embargo against Japan. Before the war even started. Look up the Nanking massacre in 1937.
Guano452 8 months ago
@TheWaarivzrach Stop talking trash about WW2, you don't know shit about what Americans did in the WW2. They could have stopped Hitler by lifting a freaking finger, they could have stopped the bombing at Pearl Harbour, they could have stopped the Japanese Empire without nukeing those towns, but they didn't, all they cared about was money, not human lives! I'm talking about the government, not normal people. STFU and listen to this song, show some respect for soldiers of any race or nationality!
slim240293 1 year ago 2
@slim240293 if you're gonna throw a bomb, throw it on a MILITAIRY base with very few ppl, but NOOOOO lets just throw it at 2 fucking densly populated CIVILAN areas so that 100 years from now there are still ppl getting suicide issues bc of the pain of their skin falling off every week. >.> japanese crimes? you fucking threw 2 nukes on civilan cities, america! >.> show respect to ur former foe! what you say is right, but i think what the yanks did still wasn't the right thing to do >=(
SatoTM3 1 year ago
@SatoTM3 I am a "Yank" and i agree. what we did was wrong. the imperial army (WWII) was so proud to die. it is kind of moving what these guys were willing to giv up for there country
TheTwoRandoms 1 year ago
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Fighting against American and Western Imperialism! Asia for Asians!
mekon11 2 years ago
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Yeah tell that to those Asian people that the Japanese Empire conquered. To the Japanese, other Asians....especially Philippines and Koreans and Chinese, were nothing more than inferiors.
darthroden 2 years ago
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Hey, we kept american and european people from taking over Asia. Europeans are mere rats who wants to take over Asia's lands.
mekon11 2 years ago
Maybe so, but that doesn't excuse the fact that you thought of Chinese and Koreans as inferiors. So did whites, but if you are going to make an argument, you should try to have the moral high ground....Japan didn't. They were no better, only difference is Americans didn't march people to death, or make women work in brothels as prostitutes.
darthroden 2 years ago
We think chinese and koreans are brothers. What r u talking about?
mekon11 2 years ago
That's what you think today, not what Imperial Japanese policy was in the 1930s....plus I'm sure the women that Japanese troops turned into concubines would say different.
darthroden 2 years ago
I hate people who believe that the others different people are inferiors...
whitelightning1918 2 years ago 9
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pathetic. damn japanese shouldn't have attacked us in the first place
marinekid12321 2 years ago
Have you ever heard the saying "When the rich rage war, it's the poor that die"? It's whats going on here. These people never wanted to take part in this. They were forced to. It was either get enlisted or you get sent to prison. And prison in these Asian countries isn't like in the US. You don't get your 3 meals a day and air conditioned prisons.
Alexr197 2 years ago
Aww.... how nice of them, but it really is striking to see the pain on the faces of those men, it is both inspiring yet it gives a sense of hopelessness especially if you know the situation you were in.
AllenDGM 2 years ago
Children that live in peace can't understand the true meaning of war. Lucky them!
Poetamo 2 years ago
What's the name of this song? And is it possible to find the japanese lyrics somewhere? I'd like to learn it since I am cosplaying a japanese character. (Well Japan from the Hetalia serie) Anyway, I looove this song. It's... a special cute song but full of hope too.
MorbidaBeWeird 2 years ago 2
"Song for the Defence of Iwo Jima" according to the soundtrack.
PonThePony 2 years ago
Thank you very much!! ~
MorbidaBeWeird 2 years ago
gr8 song
evilduck1000 2 years ago
beautiful song for great gentlemen end soldier...im europian guy,but ????
propolis200 2 years ago
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what is the song called
harlee781 2 years ago 3
Nice!
lsf665 2 years ago
The spirit of the samurai lives in these men. For the sake of warcraftmanship and loyalty for a country and an ideal, we all should be proud of them, the heroes of Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Iejima and all other Japanese territories they fell defending.
jonaspv 2 years ago 2
children sang it, impressive.
LemurDeCatta 2 years ago
Beautiful song and one of the best movies I have seen as of yet. The lyrics are beautiful. Banzai!
Avondland 2 years ago
this movie is defiantely in my top 5 movies of all time
DeltaAngel101 2 years ago 17
Great scene i cryied the first time i saw it.....
Jeffanos 2 years ago 7
The worst of the war was the ultimatum of President Roosevelt that asked for unconditional surrender so it motivated the strong defense of Germany and Japan, and probably Italy.
Francewy 2 years ago
100% correct
Gauchoo1234 2 years ago
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Makes you think of the kids Truman cooked in their cradles in Nagasaki.
wightwidow420 2 years ago
Clueless idiot
ele90 2 years ago 6
Oh, I'm not judging the man - he had an election to think about, and public opinion must always outweigh morality in politics. However, if awareness that it was Japan and Japan alone that suffered the only atomic barrage in military history - at the hands of American airmen safe in their cockpits with their air supremacy, in an archipelago surrounded, embargoed, diplomatically isolated and starving - counts as "clueless idiocy," then I for one am proud to be called a clueless idiot.
wightwidow420 2 years ago
OK oyu President of the United States. You have 2 choices either drop atomic bombs on Japan, or risk thousands if not millions of American lives by invading Japan. Truman chose the logical choice and clueless idiots like you think that it would have been better to lose American lives in a war which would last anothr year. And i bet if we invaded Japan you would be right here explaining how you think it would be better if we did drop the bombs.
ele90 2 years ago 5
this film is sad it shows us how bad royalty are-the japanese people were forced to believe that the americans were monsters and that their land was being invaded-the japanese people were not innocent though-they slaughtered and raped in a burmese hospital they tortured pows but mostly they were normal people and fed the wrong information and undisciplined many americans would be as evil
RustBaron 2 years ago
beautiful song
delosbarros 2 years ago 8
American military intelligence was listening in, and some of the Japanese-American translators wept when the song was played. They knew the futility of it all and that these men were basically going to die for nothing.
One of the great tragedies of WW2 is that Germany and Japan continued fighting long after there was no longer any possibility of the Axis powers winning the war.
Kenzo808 2 years ago 3
January 1945 - MacArthur forwarded to the President a Japanese offer to surrender to which was exactly what we accepted 7 months later. Had it been accepted when first offered, there would have been no heavy loss of life on Iwo Jima (over 26,033 Americans killed or wounded, approximately 21,000 Japanese killed) and Okinawa (over 39,000 U.S. dead and wounded, 109,000 Japanese dead)
Nationsnotregimes 2 years ago
硫黄島防備の歌
arcotower 2 years ago
the best scene in the movie
finfan4lifee 2 years ago 11
good movie, worth buying thrice.
one for keeps
one for borrowing
and another to carry around(just in case)
Cube210 2 years ago 38
this was a great movie :]
clint eastwood is an amazing director
buttaaamilkXbiiiscut 3 years ago 2
Clint rools he mange to do 2 films at the same time Letter from iwo jima and Flags of our fahters he evan are useing the same scene in both films in some parts
nyztan0 3 years ago
what nobody realizes is that the Japanese were Human to
TravisDrago 3 years ago 6
taiheiyo no nami no ue
teito no minami sen yo kiro
ukabu chiisana ichi koto
ima nippon no kouhai wo
kessuru yosho Iwo Jima
warera kono chi ni aru kagiri
hondo ha yasusi eien ni
nippon danji no na wo tosite
kunan ni kachite mamorinuku
homare mo takaki Iwo Jima
JamesAndEdwardfan300 3 years ago 7
this scence impacted my feeling so much in the movie.
this is the incredible movie.
i said that not becaust i'm nino's fan. but as Clint's fan.
he's the best!
brokenwingsx27x 3 years ago
can we please not turn this into some historical political argument guys?
13243546abcdef 3 years ago 6
this was one of the saddest movies ive ever seen this part was also sad I love this movie and it goes to show war is sad
hpswpotclotr 3 years ago 2
and that no one wins
UFNightWolf 3 years ago 2
yeah in the end its just lives lost which is yet again Sad just like this movie
hpswpotclotr 3 years ago
the most memberable scence when general jurbashi tried to save a wounded U.S marine i was suprised by that
reddevilneck 3 years ago 6
& I wasn't surprised when two US Marines broke the Geneva Convention and shot dead two POW's.
happymana 3 years ago 2
Japan and th US were not under the Geneva convention in WWII. Germany and the US were but not Japan and US.
hpempire77 3 years ago
They were, Both Japan and America signed in 1929. But failed to Ratify until 1942. Both sides ignored the treaty when ever they felt it necessary.
Source is Wikipedia.
happymana 3 years ago
Myths have always been more believed than any facts.
Happy New year.
Nationsnotregimes 3 years ago
In any war,TRUTH is the FIRST casualty.
KURAITENSA 3 years ago 4
Actually its innocence.
hpempire77 2 years ago 2
Although I understand what you are saying,this quote 'In war truth is the first casuality' is credited to a number of people,I prefer Aeschylus,a Greek dramatist in 525 BC.I think though it is the innocent who suffer.Peace.
KURAITENSA 2 years ago 2
January 1945 - MacArthur forwarded to the President a Japanese offer to surrender to which was exactly what we accepted 7 months later. Had it been accepted when first offered, there would have been no heavy loss of life on Iwo Jima (over 26,033 Americans killed or wounded, approximately 21,000 Japanese killed) and Okinawa (over 39,000 U.S. dead and wounded, 109,000 Japanese dead)
Nationsnotregimes 2 years ago
By Mytys, I meant that Japan did not want nor really start that ugly war.
Nationsnotregimes 3 years ago
What Really Happened?
Dangerous myths about the Japanese relocation camps.
JAN. 2003
Any one reading will perhaps be angry over the hate and lies towards Whites of the U.S. over this fraud.
Nationsnotregimes 3 years ago
What Really Happened?
Dangerous myths about the Japanese relocation camps.
JAN. 2003
Type that in to a search engine.
Nationsnotregimes 3 years ago
this is what i love about youtube. if i want to hear the song the japanese children sang in letters from iwo jima then i can. immediately.haha thanks for uploading
atmarcusat 3 years ago 7
Does any1 know the Japanese lyrics to this song? Preferably in romaji since I can't read kanji, hiragana or katakana. 2 second jaws663,yes it is an original or acutual, use whatever word of those 2 u like, Japanese warsong from WWII that's titeled "Iwo Jima Defense" if I'm not totally wrong, at least thats what they told on behind the scenes on the "Letters from Iwo Jima"-DVD. Regarding the Japanese lyrics, the 1 who knows them, or can tip me off where 2 find them, can send a PM 2 me
KEGST 3 years ago
I don't know for sure, but i thought it is an original wartime 'melody' they recorded it again...
jaws663 3 years ago