Clint !!!!!!!!!!!! You are my god !!!!!!!!!!!!! My idol, a great actor and a great director!!!!!!!! Vive la France and long life the United States of America White!!! From Somme in France.
They abducted 200,000 Asians (& Caucasians), raped them up to 50 times a day & then buried them alive to save bullets when they became sick.
*Japanese govt won't apologize to any of the surviving sex slaves.
*It STILL sugercoats this by outrageously lying that the victims were whores who volunteered to service Japanese & received great treatment & even bigger salary than Japanese army generals from Japan.
GOOGLE: Jan Ruff O'Herne - Japanese military sex slave
japanese imperialism is motived by superiority, but only superiority of japanese towards people from asia, not others race.
One of their way of propaganda which lot of soldiers and citizens believed was that they thought that USA or europenas countries could invade them, that's why they motived the colonisation as an excuse.
Soldiers fight for the values they believe, and at the end ofthe day, you can't say one is totaly good or bad, this movie shows it.
MrFattyfatass is probably some fat red neck racist who has the confederate flag tattooed on his stomach..Lets just say a one Japanese soldier could take him and 5 of his friends and not care about dying
They abducted 200,000 Asians (also Caucasians), raped them up to 50 times a day & buried them alive to save bullets.
Japanese govt won't apologize to any of surviving sex slaves.
In 2007, Japanese govt org bought 1 pg. of Wall Street Journal & filled it with OUTRAGEOUS LIES: 1) the females were whores who volunteered to service Japanese soldiers. 2) Japanese govt paid them more than Japanese army generals.
GOOGLE: Jan Ruff O'Herne - Japanese military sex slave
This battle was was less than 70 years ago. It's hard to believe that we will never fight wars like that ever again with the technology we've developed since then.
I'm an American, and I actually liked this film better than Flags of our Fathers.
@MrFattyfatfatboy Wow Autralian eh? Well I'm Filipino but I don't hate all Japanese, because there are good and bad men of each side, You probably didn't watch Letters from Iwo Jima that's why you can give sympathy to them. Plus they've done more war crimes in Asia rather in Autralia.
The same cane be said about anyone who weren't screwed over. I for one don't hate Iraqis, my father never spoke ill of the Vietnamese. But my grandfather hated the Japaneses till the day he died.
Lets face it none of your friends were hurt or killed by the Japanese, this all happened a long time ago hence you don't have a frame of reference against them.
@TheProgramPirate your filipino so yes what the japs did there was insane, yet if you go to japan it will be you who will be seen as the agressor,they have written history.
@MrFattyfatfatboy You're only seeing the Western's perspective, have you even watched the movie? I hated Japan because of WW2 Until I saw this movie, do not revolve on only one's perspective.
@MrFattyfatfatboy I know what they did, oh please, I have a degree in Philippine history, just because there were some cruel Japanese doesn't I have to hate them all, there are good and bad people on each side. A lot of them didn't wanted to fight, they were forced the the emperor and the Kempeitai would arrest them if they think of declining. Stop thinking that you know my history better than me.
@MrFattyfatfatboy Plus, the "destruction" caused by Japan on Australia is incomparable to what they did on us, those aircraft carriers weren't Australian, they were filled with U.S troops. And I'm not nor will I ever defect to Japan
@MrFattyfatfatboy All your accusations of raping shits were right but don't you know that the American raped many japanese women when japan was occupied? Don't look from one perspective, I'm an Indonesian and trust me, the Dutch in your eyes were an innocent country which got invaded by the German in WW2 but you don't know what they did to us that time, it was horrible...
A Movie changed your perspective on Japan role in WW2???? Why don't you try reading some books about Japans role in WW2, Start with the Rape of Nanking.
@CSATexan Yeah, It changed my perspective, you know why? Almost every book and movie classifies all Japanese soldiers were evil and merciless. This movie taught me that all soldiers didn't want to kill or fight, they were just forced.
@MrFattyfatfatboy Before posting BS, try doing some research so you don't sound so stupid. The actual casualty numbers are easily found so why the crap? "Refused battle"....you are truly ignorant. 6,821 Marines died and 21,788 Japanese died. Now you don't have to hurt yourself looking.
@MrFattyfatfatboy "Dog Japs"??? Really? How old are you, because you act about 12. Those Japanese soldiers defended an island totally and gave as good as they got. History defends them, not me. Yes, the Japanese soldiers did do many horrific acts, but as a whole the Japanese soldier was one hell of a warrior. I do not defend them, I defend the truth. The truth from over 40 years of research, learning and digging in the shadows.
@MrFattyfatfatboy Your numbers are wrong...way wrong and get over the "Jap dog" crap. You weren't there, you didn't suffer so you have no room to call them names. The Japanese soldier dug in and fought with skill and tenacity. Comments like yours show the greatest of ignorance.
@MrFattyfatfatboy "you hid in the ground and refused battle, but 23900 of you died against 6300 marines."
It's called military strategy idiot. It's those same tactics that the Afghans used to beat the Soviets, the same tactics the NVA and VC used to beat the US. You think war is about showing your face and fighting fairly? Drop the Call of Duty and get a reality check. Do some military research.
BTW, real mature to say "dog japs" in a movie meant to clean negative Japanese image.
@Namelessjack14 Yea, well why dont you tell that to the 3000 sailors and marines in pearl harbor!! Sleeping or brushin their teeth when they were bombed. Japan Started the war and we finished it because they wouldnt surrender because they were to damn buisy running planes into our ships!!!!
@MrJMAN1955 it wasnt the japanese's choice to go kamikaze and yea well in my opinion were america yea japan killed many lives in pearl harbor but we killed millions of civilians which was not needed
Of course that is your opinion, You didn't have anything to loose. Far as your concerned the Japanese just sat around all day thinking up of ways to create Pokemon type cartoons.
Let me ask you this. What would be the point that could make you support the bombing a Japanese city?? Could it be that the Japanese were executing down pilots.
@MrJMAN1955 Oh yeah, and the USA answered back with the most devastating weapon of all time, TWICE! That 3000 can't be compared to nearly half a million. And the US never apologized that massacre...
To start with when is Japan going to apologize for murdering US POWs??? Hell while we are at it didn't Japanese POW camp commanders receive orders to kill all allied POWs at the start an Allied invasion???
Regardless of all the racist comments, this battle was historically accurate. There are good humans on both sides of the battle. Whether it was Nazis, or Japs, there are good individuals that lived and died in battle. End the wars, end the hate
@187nydala what the a-bomb? ya i know about that dipshit. it was either bomb them or lose over 1 million american lives. i think they deserved it. they were even dumb enough not to surrender after the first one so we had to drop another........
@Mills117 not only that, in Europe the americans and the british bombed relentlessly killing more civilians than you can imagen, and leveling whole cities to the ground. And the the POW that the Americans took, were not always kept alive. You see, its the victor that writes the history.
@Mills117 wow really? because yes you did. You killed off and tortured japs. You bomb raided Germany way too much. The us killed thousands if ten thousands civilians in Germany. See you are filled up with american propaganda.
@187nydala it was just us the bombed germany? and again, we bombed them at certain points, not meaning to kill civilians. and what proof do you have that we killed and "tortured" japs? even IF we did, it was to no extent of the japanese
@Mills117 see your trying to rationalize torture. "not to the extent" you are so filled up with propaganda. And the bombing by the allies. (Mostly UK and US) killed at least half a million all over the world.
@187nydala proof that we tortured POW's? and the civilians that we bombed? i bet every single spot bombed was oil, factories, or bases. not meaning to kill civilians
@187nydala Yeah, don't forget about the 20+ million Russian who died under Stalin's communist reign and Hitler's Fascist extermination attempt of the Jews. NO government is perfect, Democracy is the best of them all.
So the US and UK just went about killing German people for no reason what so ever. The US was kicking back watching some silly game of Baseball and one day said. "FUCK THIS IS BORING LETS GO KILL SOME GERMANS."
@CSATexan when did I say that? War itself is a crime. But it's funny how the victors write the history. Why were the allies so good? the "heros" were not that much better than the "evil" axis.
@CSATexan You still killed a man, and not only ONE man but a million of innocent ones, You did not only kill the molester, you killed his entire family now, and the friends of the family, and they were all innocent.
@187nydala: The Nazis started the war in Europe, and the Japanese started the war in Asia. Both countries fought in the hitherto most inhumane way. I can't really see how anyone can complain that both Germany and Japan got a dose of the very same medicine that they had administered to their victims.
One shouldn't forget either that both Germany and Japan were treated relatively nicely after teh war. I dare not think how Hitler and Hirohito would have acted if they had won the war.
@ErichMustermann1 So how is what the allied did not a war crime? Bombing Europe to its core. Killing a million civilians. Is that not a crime yes or no?
@187nydala: The Nazis started bombing civilian targets in Poland, France and the Netherlands and didn't give a damn how many non-combattants they killed. They went on to carry out air raids against British civilian targets, so little wonder that Britain, which unlike Poland or France had a significant air force, decided to hit back. This is simply what happens when you start a war. If you can't handle your enemy's strike-back, you'd better not start a f*cking war, that's all there is to say.
I thought this film was excellent. It is important to remember and reflect on the struggle and ordeal of the average infantry soldier, regardless of the side they fight on and to recognize that soldiers inherent humanity. One thing cannot be quibbled about though: the brutish, racist evil that fueled Japanese imperialism. At their height, they were killing 20,000 civilians a week. Atrocities on both sides? Yes, absolutely. Comparable in size, scope and degree of inhumanity? Not even close.
@Dusted000 I agree 100% with everything you said intill "Comparable in size scope and degree of inhumanity? Not even close" All i have to say is the atomic bomb. There is NO WAY atomic weapons were used on civilians without a racist evil attitude toward the people of japan. It was a risk America was willing to take. To me that is the exact racist evil fueled by both sides.
@compooky You can say, "There is NO WAY...", but that doesn't make it so. Was there a racist hatred for the Japanese by American GI's? Of Course. Was that why they dropped the atomic bomb? Of course not. Read up on the battles of Guadalcanal, Peleliu, and Okinawa. 50,000 American casualties on Okinawa alone. The invasion of Japan would have been the biggest bloodbath in history, exceeding the bombs. When you see 2500 dead men come back every week, ending the war, not race, is what's important.
@compooky And I would also suggest you read up on the torture, rape, murder and enslavement that the Japanese inflicted on their neighbors and those who fought them. Again...atrocities on all sides? Yes. Equal in scope and inhumanity. Not. Even. Close.
@Dusted000 germany and japan work as perfect examples of why people have to be cerfull. it culd happen here. those people where no difrent from us. hell, it acutaly has happend in usa, slavery, the indian genocide. best way to fight against inhumanity is cold and hard education.
@gethsoftware Your examples are flawed. Slavery is a system that has been perpetrated by every race, color and creed throughout human existence. Because American's in the antebellum south 150 years ago continued to practice it does not mean we are "no different". Japan and Germany both invaded numerous countries and slaughtered their peoples by the millions...65 years ago. I believe that we are all capable of awful things. But the US is simply too multi-ethnic to go down those identical paths .
At the archaelogical site at the start of the film, I think Clint must have surely said at some point to the crew "There are two kinds of people in this film, those with guns, and those who dig. You dig".
I did....because I was more interested in the Japanese side anyway. Im leaning towsrds liking Letters from Iwo Jima better as the Japanese soldiers (well, some officers) may have been fucking dicks but a lot of them looked like decent people. How the US marines acted was a bit more annoying. Then again ive seen enough roughhousing/macho bullshit IRL so the marines' behavior reminded me of that more hence my bias.
@Warsie It's true, we always percieve the Japanese as these animalistic killers out for American blood, but ultimately many of them were as brave and courageous as us in many aspects. However, not so sure about most of them being good people esp. the ones who attacked China... the idea of Japanese supremacy was pretty well stamped in and the Japanese style of subjugation took war back 600 years.
regarding the second sino-japanese war, I guess it depended on the soldiers. The Nanjing Incident shows there was a lot of dickishness, and some of that came from officers ("three alls" policy in northern China). Not to mention other things.
@Warsie doesn't matter... If I was the one doing the killing, raping and stealing, even if I was just following orders, I would still be very much in the wrong.
the massacres in china were well helped by chinese collaborators who served japanese interest, just like french collaborators helped nazis during France occupation. Lot of people tend to forget that, that's was the same in indochina and dutch colonies in Asia. The european forces in these countries collaborated to the massacres too.
Japanese imperialism was evil, but the worst is that big part of german or japanese soldiers were maintened in ignorance about that.
@tatianaf1000 Helped is a key word here. The Japanese were still largely the ones who carried it out. Does that mean that every Japanese soldier knew about this across the front? Of course not. Did the Japanese military leadership still sanction this massacre? Absolutely.
i agree but the collaborators (the elites ones at least) perfectly knew that what the japaense elite was doing was bad, but they still choose to collaborate (the same as nazi collaborators), what means that they are at last as responsible as them, i think that these collaborators were never judged and some of them highly participate in some crimes like the Naking massacre.
People tend to forget that these collaborators were one of the reasons of japan "sucess"to conquer and kill.
@tatianaf1000 I'm not arguing that they're just as guilty, but it was the Japanese's idea and it certainly doesn't detract from their role as the main perpetrators. Just because someone else helped doesn't make them any less guilty.
Ken Watanabe was a PERFECT pick for this movie. He is one of my favorite actors to begin with. One thing I strongly suggest, is watching first "Flags of our Fathers" and then "Letters from Iwo-Jima" together. It makes the story of the battle all the more poignant.
japanese marines and japanese navy fought bravely in iwo jima if you dont agree go read a book about iwo jima.180000 americans against 20000 japaneses...
at least they fought for their country.
iam not saying that the americans were cowards NO! they fought bravely too
japanese marines and japanese navy fought bravely in iwo jima if you dont agree go read a book about iwo jima.180000 americans against 20000 japaneses...
at least they fought for their country.
i am not saying that the americans were cowards NO! they fought bravely too
Clint eastwood is great director!! I love him, so I watched IWOJIMA,I have both DVD,but I didnt watch American side movie yet. but I'll watch it soon. my grandfather had went to IWOJIMA as a soilder,he could go to home.I had never talk with grandfather about war during he live.
I want not to say which is right or wrong,both people ware thinking we are right. every War is so. both soilder having brave and loving familiy. so this is great movie ever!!! Clint's Grantrino is also great movie!!!
I really like how he put scenes from flags of our fathers in Letters, really lets us know that its all clint eastwood, great movies both of them.
BTW, everybody, today, as I type this comment, it is the date of the flag raising over Mt. Suribachi, pray with me, and lets honor the souls of those that lost their lives on that Island.
This is way better than Flags of Our Fathers. Letters of Iwo Jima made an impact on me, whereas Flags of Our Fathers in my opinion just was a war movie among others.
I guess its the cultural differences. Americans just attack a place with totally overpowered forces and cry, when 10 of their own die. The Japanese were blown to pieces, but many of them just fought on.
Then again, mabye I see resemblance between this war and the Winter war and thus cheer for the Japanese in this movie...
@sam9116 No. It's 手紙 not 手纸 ;) And it doesn't mean memo paper as w88w88 said, it's just "letter" nowadays. I can imagine it's fun for Chinese people though ^^
My Father was in World War II. He was in the Navy Air Corps. They treated the Japanese Detainees very well. They gave them the food to prepare the way they wanted it, and they gave them whatever was needed to sustain them. They never tortured them. Wish I could say the same for the Japanese to our American Soldiers. Yes, war is a terrible thing. War is a punishment for sin. Man's inhumanity to man is due to a flawed soul! Let the Japanese make their own film.
@caroln1858 Didnt you watch the video? Clint made a movie first on the american side and then a movie on the other side, japan. it show the humanity of the two sides and the inhumanity of the war
@caroln1858 your stupid u probably play cod waw all day. Im american and i actually like it more wen directors show a bunch of americans dieing u know y? because litterally every movie is with a bunch of Germans Italians and japanese getting killed when they were just like us. And this was the first movie i saw from the axis prospective. This is my favorite ww2 movie hands down. I hate fellow americans like u, go kill urself from getting mad from that unrealistic cod waw shit.
First of all, thanks for uploading this. Second, no matter what country you are from, no one will like the horrors of war. It's a cruel world we live in, and hopefully the United States, no, the world, to ever have a battle like Iwo Jima. I pay my respects.
@lol02468 yes they were brave, but also cruel, disgusting, unhuman and etc... this movie were focused only in fancy... they showed a captain who is kind to the prisoners and a soldier who is incapable to kill a fly all this with a honorific music... amazing bullshit!
When the plane shoots like that, it's not plain bullets going down. They aren't straight forward, since the aircraft isn't. It moves in the air, even though the sands is a straight line. Well almost, so i can see your point ;)
Eastwood is senile and is dishonest. There was only one US marine taken prisoner by the Japs on Iwo his name was Ralph Ignatowski. Compare the film with reality.
This is unlike the typical Spielberg epics of 'Saving Private Ryan' that only exist to highlight the brutality and savagery of all war. Instead, Eastwood's approach is incredibly original and more builds itself on the foundation of its characters rather than actual battle.
It is sad to think that such a fine piece of work is underrated heavily considering its improvement from 'Flags of our Fathers'. One of the best I've seen.
i have so much respect for Clint Eastwood. The man sees things for what they really are. "it boils down to young men being sent off to end their lives prematurely, no matter what side your on". which brings me to the statement of "in war there is no victor" PERIOD.
I've seen many, many war movies and Letters From Iwo Jima by far one of the best I've ever seen. I will never in my lifetime understand why it didn't win best picture. Truly an amazing film that touches all of humanity no matter what race or nationality you are.
The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson."
--- President Franklin D. Roosevelt's letter to Colonel House, November 21, 1933 (Sterling Library, Yale University).
yes, this is true. but you have to learn why the Peal Harbor attack was made. the Japs were not completely crazy and started attacking. Of course I do not justify the Japanese Empire launching the attack, but they had a reason, and of course it was the very very last alternative for them to attack. From what I read and think, I believe so.
Gretings Japaneses... !!
BANZAI !!!
kupa63n 3 days ago
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Clint !!!!!!!!!!!! You are my god !!!!!!!!!!!!! My idol, a great actor and a great director!!!!!!!! Vive la France and long life the United States of America White!!! From Somme in France.
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099999999faf 2 weeks ago
man, before i die, clint eastwood n ken watanabe r one of the few ppl i wanna meet.
slipknot14k 1 month ago
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Japanese were as evil as Nazis.
They abducted 200,000 Asians (& Caucasians), raped them up to 50 times a day & then buried them alive to save bullets when they became sick.
*Japanese govt won't apologize to any of the surviving sex slaves.
*It STILL sugercoats this by outrageously lying that the victims were whores who volunteered to service Japanese & received great treatment & even bigger salary than Japanese army generals from Japan.
GOOGLE: Jan Ruff O'Herne - Japanese military sex slave
KimInLosAngeles 1 month ago
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this rape the pacific series, clint is a damn genius
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wesker9611729426 1 month ago
japanese imperialism is motived by superiority, but only superiority of japanese towards people from asia, not others race.
One of their way of propaganda which lot of soldiers and citizens believed was that they thought that USA or europenas countries could invade them, that's why they motived the colonisation as an excuse.
Soldiers fight for the values they believe, and at the end ofthe day, you can't say one is totaly good or bad, this movie shows it.
Very good movie...
tatianaf1000 1 month ago
MrFattyfatass is probably some fat red neck racist who has the confederate flag tattooed on his stomach..Lets just say a one Japanese soldier could take him and 5 of his friends and not care about dying
CosmicDestroyer99 2 months ago
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Japanese were as evil as Nazis.
They abducted 200,000 Asians (also Caucasians), raped them up to 50 times a day & buried them alive to save bullets.
Japanese govt won't apologize to any of surviving sex slaves.
In 2007, Japanese govt org bought 1 pg. of Wall Street Journal & filled it with OUTRAGEOUS LIES: 1) the females were whores who volunteered to service Japanese soldiers. 2) Japanese govt paid them more than Japanese army generals.
GOOGLE: Jan Ruff O'Herne - Japanese military sex slave
KimInLosAngeles 3 months ago
One of the best movies ever made much better then Flag of our fathers and i felt more for japanese then i did for americans.
rukicar 3 months ago
This battle was was less than 70 years ago. It's hard to believe that we will never fight wars like that ever again with the technology we've developed since then.
I'm an American, and I actually liked this film better than Flags of our Fathers.
MilanKorr91 4 months ago
cowardly dog japs , you hid in the ground and refused battle, but 23900 of you died against 6300 marines.
MrFattyfatfatboy 4 months ago
@MrFattyfatfatboy Congratulations, you made another pointless and unaccurate theory that no one gives a shit about! Please go home and die.
TheProgramPirate 3 months ago
@TheProgramPirate congrats for the japs for rewriting history and making them selves human , im Australian and i dont forgive japs war crimes dogs.
MrFattyfatfatboy 3 months ago
@MrFattyfatfatboy Wow Autralian eh? Well I'm Filipino but I don't hate all Japanese, because there are good and bad men of each side, You probably didn't watch Letters from Iwo Jima that's why you can give sympathy to them. Plus they've done more war crimes in Asia rather in Autralia.
TheProgramPirate 3 months ago
@TheProgramPirate
The same cane be said about anyone who weren't screwed over. I for one don't hate Iraqis, my father never spoke ill of the Vietnamese. But my grandfather hated the Japaneses till the day he died.
Lets face it none of your friends were hurt or killed by the Japanese, this all happened a long time ago hence you don't have a frame of reference against them.
CSATexan 3 months ago
@TheProgramPirate your filipino so yes what the japs did there was insane, yet if you go to japan it will be you who will be seen as the agressor,they have written history.
MrFattyfatfatboy 3 months ago
@MrFattyfatfatboy You're only seeing the Western's perspective, have you even watched the movie? I hated Japan because of WW2 Until I saw this movie, do not revolve on only one's perspective.
TheProgramPirate 3 months ago
@TheProgramPirate you dont know what they did if you think that raping killing and genocide the japs commited were faIR.
MrFattyfatfatboy 3 months ago
@MrFattyfatfatboy I know what they did, oh please, I have a degree in Philippine history, just because there were some cruel Japanese doesn't I have to hate them all, there are good and bad people on each side. A lot of them didn't wanted to fight, they were forced the the emperor and the Kempeitai would arrest them if they think of declining. Stop thinking that you know my history better than me.
TheProgramPirate 3 months ago
@MrFattyfatfatboy Plus, the "destruction" caused by Japan on Australia is incomparable to what they did on us, those aircraft carriers weren't Australian, they were filled with U.S troops. And I'm not nor will I ever defect to Japan
TheProgramPirate 3 months ago
@MrFattyfatfatboy All your accusations of raping shits were right but don't you know that the American raped many japanese women when japan was occupied? Don't look from one perspective, I'm an Indonesian and trust me, the Dutch in your eyes were an innocent country which got invaded by the German in WW2 but you don't know what they did to us that time, it was horrible...
aryacool1997 3 weeks ago
@TheProgramPirate
A Movie changed your perspective on Japan role in WW2???? Why don't you try reading some books about Japans role in WW2, Start with the Rape of Nanking.
CSATexan 3 months ago
@CSATexan Yeah, It changed my perspective, you know why? Almost every book and movie classifies all Japanese soldiers were evil and merciless. This movie taught me that all soldiers didn't want to kill or fight, they were just forced.
TheProgramPirate 3 months ago
@TheProgramPirate
You mean all the movies made by Japan victims??
CSATexan 3 months ago
@CSATexan You're not understanding a single word I'm typing. Disregard this, acquire ponies
TheProgramPirate 3 months ago
@TheProgramPirate
I understand everything your posting it is your premise that I disagree with.
Or to put it in PC Terminology (IE NEWSPEAK) How many positive stories about the Nazis would it take to change your mind about them??
CSATexan 3 months ago
@CSATexan Bottom line is, I don't blame the troops, I blame the Leaders for waging war.
TheProgramPirate 3 months ago
@TheProgramPirate
These "troops" went about on a violent rampage through Asia murder millions of people.
Were all of the guilty?? Not all of them not even the majority of them.
But all of the innocent troops fought to defend the guilty ones as they committed their crimes.
CSATexan 3 months ago
@MrFattyfatfatboy Before posting BS, try doing some research so you don't sound so stupid. The actual casualty numbers are easily found so why the crap? "Refused battle"....you are truly ignorant. 6,821 Marines died and 21,788 Japanese died. Now you don't have to hurt yourself looking.
Toddinfantry 3 months ago
@Toddinfantry dont defend those dogs the japs.
MrFattyfatfatboy 3 months ago
@MrFattyfatfatboy "Dog Japs"??? Really? How old are you, because you act about 12. Those Japanese soldiers defended an island totally and gave as good as they got. History defends them, not me. Yes, the Japanese soldiers did do many horrific acts, but as a whole the Japanese soldier was one hell of a warrior. I do not defend them, I defend the truth. The truth from over 40 years of research, learning and digging in the shadows.
Toddinfantry 3 months ago 8
@MrFattyfatfatboy Your numbers are wrong...way wrong and get over the "Jap dog" crap. You weren't there, you didn't suffer so you have no room to call them names. The Japanese soldier dug in and fought with skill and tenacity. Comments like yours show the greatest of ignorance.
Toddinfantry 2 months ago
@MrFattyfatfatboy "you hid in the ground and refused battle, but 23900 of you died against 6300 marines."
It's called military strategy idiot. It's those same tactics that the Afghans used to beat the Soviets, the same tactics the NVA and VC used to beat the US. You think war is about showing your face and fighting fairly? Drop the Call of Duty and get a reality check. Do some military research.
BTW, real mature to say "dog japs" in a movie meant to clean negative Japanese image.
XxXLordPeinXxX666 2 months ago
EVERYBODY ITS STILL FUCKED UP YOU DONT BOMB A MILLION CIVILIONS JUST TO WIN AN ALREADY WON WAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Namelessjack14 4 months ago
@Namelessjack14
Well Mr Arm Chair General. If the war was already won why didn't Japan surrender???
CSATexan 4 months ago
@Namelessjack14 Yea, well why dont you tell that to the 3000 sailors and marines in pearl harbor!! Sleeping or brushin their teeth when they were bombed. Japan Started the war and we finished it because they wouldnt surrender because they were to damn buisy running planes into our ships!!!!
MrJMAN1955 4 months ago
@MrJMAN1955 it wasnt the japanese's choice to go kamikaze and yea well in my opinion were america yea japan killed many lives in pearl harbor but we killed millions of civilians which was not needed
Namelessjack14 4 months ago
@Namelessjack14
Of course that is your opinion, You didn't have anything to loose. Far as your concerned the Japanese just sat around all day thinking up of ways to create Pokemon type cartoons.
Let me ask you this. What would be the point that could make you support the bombing a Japanese city?? Could it be that the Japanese were executing down pilots.
How about their executing POWs?
How about their targeting medical teams?
CSATexan 3 months ago
@MrJMAN1955 Oh yeah, and the USA answered back with the most devastating weapon of all time, TWICE! That 3000 can't be compared to nearly half a million. And the US never apologized that massacre...
CzombiPC 3 months ago
@CzombiPC
Massacre???
To start with when is Japan going to apologize for murdering US POWs??? Hell while we are at it didn't Japanese POW camp commanders receive orders to kill all allied POWs at the start an Allied invasion???
CSATexan 3 months ago
Regardless of all the racist comments, this battle was historically accurate. There are good humans on both sides of the battle. Whether it was Nazis, or Japs, there are good individuals that lived and died in battle. End the wars, end the hate
goe5 5 months ago
i have absolutely no fucking respect for them japanese monkeys
Mills117 6 months ago
@Mills117 Why should people have respect for you?
187nydala 5 months ago
@187nydala not me, the US. Japan tortured its American POW's. We didn't
Mills117 5 months ago
@Mills117 America probably commit some of the worst war crime during WWII. But you probably didn't know that right?
187nydala 5 months ago
@187nydala what the a-bomb? ya i know about that dipshit. it was either bomb them or lose over 1 million american lives. i think they deserved it. they were even dumb enough not to surrender after the first one so we had to drop another........
Mills117 5 months ago
@Mills117 not only that, in Europe the americans and the british bombed relentlessly killing more civilians than you can imagen, and leveling whole cities to the ground. And the the POW that the Americans took, were not always kept alive. You see, its the victor that writes the history.
187nydala 5 months ago
@187nydala we DID NOT torture the POW's thats the point im trying to get at. and we didn't bomb cities for no reason, there had to be a reason
Mills117 5 months ago
@Mills117 wow really? because yes you did. You killed off and tortured japs. You bomb raided Germany way too much. The us killed thousands if ten thousands civilians in Germany. See you are filled up with american propaganda.
187nydala 5 months ago
@187nydala it was just us the bombed germany? and again, we bombed them at certain points, not meaning to kill civilians. and what proof do you have that we killed and "tortured" japs? even IF we did, it was to no extent of the japanese
Mills117 5 months ago
@Mills117 see your trying to rationalize torture. "not to the extent" you are so filled up with propaganda. And the bombing by the allies. (Mostly UK and US) killed at least half a million all over the world.
187nydala 5 months ago
@187nydala proof that we tortured POW's? and the civilians that we bombed? i bet every single spot bombed was oil, factories, or bases. not meaning to kill civilians
Mills117 5 months ago
@187nydala Yeah, don't forget about the 20+ million Russian who died under Stalin's communist reign and Hitler's Fascist extermination attempt of the Jews. NO government is perfect, Democracy is the best of them all.
downloadgoblin 5 months ago
@187nydala
That was the war that Axis initiated against the allies. Why do you sound shocked that the allies used a somewhat similar tactic.
CSATexan 4 months ago
@CSATexan because the allied were suposed to be the "good guys" yet they kill almost a million civilians. Thats not good.
187nydala 4 months ago
@187nydala
So the US and UK just went about killing German people for no reason what so ever. The US was kicking back watching some silly game of Baseball and one day said. "FUCK THIS IS BORING LETS GO KILL SOME GERMANS."
That is what happened in the war right???
CSATexan 4 months ago
@CSATexan when did I say that? War itself is a crime. But it's funny how the victors write the history. Why were the allies so good? the "heros" were not that much better than the "evil" axis.
187nydala 4 months ago
@187nydala
hmmmm lets see, just what did the Japanese do to occupied nations and compare that to what the US did to occupied Japan.
CSATexan 4 months ago
@CSATexan stop the comparing, both are bad, If I kill your friend and you kill my friend, are you a good guy for doing that?
187nydala 4 months ago
@187nydala
Depends, perhaps your friend is a child molester who liked to shove his cock into little girls. Then ya, I would say that guy needs killing
CSATexan 4 months ago
@CSATexan You still killed a man, and not only ONE man but a million of innocent ones, You did not only kill the molester, you killed his entire family now, and the friends of the family, and they were all innocent.
187nydala 4 months ago
@CSATexan ok, But thats not what you only did, you also killed his innocent family and friends to the family, who were all innocent.
187nydala 4 months ago
@187nydala
First of all I didn't do crap, I wasn't even alive during the war.
But I will play the game by your rules. HOW DO YOU MAKE JAPAN QUIT?
CSATexan 4 months ago
@187nydala: The Nazis started the war in Europe, and the Japanese started the war in Asia. Both countries fought in the hitherto most inhumane way. I can't really see how anyone can complain that both Germany and Japan got a dose of the very same medicine that they had administered to their victims.
One shouldn't forget either that both Germany and Japan were treated relatively nicely after teh war. I dare not think how Hitler and Hirohito would have acted if they had won the war.
ErichMustermann1 4 months ago
@ErichMustermann1 So how is what the allied did not a war crime? Bombing Europe to its core. Killing a million civilians. Is that not a crime yes or no?
187nydala 4 months ago
@187nydala: The Nazis started bombing civilian targets in Poland, France and the Netherlands and didn't give a damn how many non-combattants they killed. They went on to carry out air raids against British civilian targets, so little wonder that Britain, which unlike Poland or France had a significant air force, decided to hit back. This is simply what happens when you start a war. If you can't handle your enemy's strike-back, you'd better not start a f*cking war, that's all there is to say.
ErichMustermann1 4 months ago
@187nydala
You didn't answer the question. HOW DO YOU MAKE JAPAN QUIT? SURRENDER? GIVE UP?
How ever yo want to call it
CSATexan 4 months ago
@Mills117 actually you did, but your country doesn't want you to know....like usual
TalonMercenary 4 months ago
@TalonMercenary ya sure we did clearly japan didn't cover it up
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kawasaki6402 7 months ago
I thought this film was excellent. It is important to remember and reflect on the struggle and ordeal of the average infantry soldier, regardless of the side they fight on and to recognize that soldiers inherent humanity. One thing cannot be quibbled about though: the brutish, racist evil that fueled Japanese imperialism. At their height, they were killing 20,000 civilians a week. Atrocities on both sides? Yes, absolutely. Comparable in size, scope and degree of inhumanity? Not even close.
Dusted000 7 months ago 25
@Dusted000 I agree 100% with everything you said intill "Comparable in size scope and degree of inhumanity? Not even close" All i have to say is the atomic bomb. There is NO WAY atomic weapons were used on civilians without a racist evil attitude toward the people of japan. It was a risk America was willing to take. To me that is the exact racist evil fueled by both sides.
compooky 3 months ago
@compooky You can say, "There is NO WAY...", but that doesn't make it so. Was there a racist hatred for the Japanese by American GI's? Of Course. Was that why they dropped the atomic bomb? Of course not. Read up on the battles of Guadalcanal, Peleliu, and Okinawa. 50,000 American casualties on Okinawa alone. The invasion of Japan would have been the biggest bloodbath in history, exceeding the bombs. When you see 2500 dead men come back every week, ending the war, not race, is what's important.
Dusted000 3 months ago
@compooky And I would also suggest you read up on the torture, rape, murder and enslavement that the Japanese inflicted on their neighbors and those who fought them. Again...atrocities on all sides? Yes. Equal in scope and inhumanity. Not. Even. Close.
Dusted000 3 months ago
@Dusted000 germany and japan work as perfect examples of why people have to be cerfull. it culd happen here. those people where no difrent from us. hell, it acutaly has happend in usa, slavery, the indian genocide. best way to fight against inhumanity is cold and hard education.
gethsoftware 2 months ago
@gethsoftware Your examples are flawed. Slavery is a system that has been perpetrated by every race, color and creed throughout human existence. Because American's in the antebellum south 150 years ago continued to practice it does not mean we are "no different". Japan and Germany both invaded numerous countries and slaughtered their peoples by the millions...65 years ago. I believe that we are all capable of awful things. But the US is simply too multi-ethnic to go down those identical paths .
Dusted000 2 months ago
At the archaelogical site at the start of the film, I think Clint must have surely said at some point to the crew "There are two kinds of people in this film, those with guns, and those who dig. You dig".
filmmichael 7 months ago
every body in world war 2 was brave and storgest and some are weekly war mean be storg and rights
danm1114 7 months ago
This movie is a masterpiece. Everything from the cast to the music was excellent. Important to see the other side to every story
Goatoftheforest 7 months ago
Watch Letters from Iwo Jima first before Flags of Our Fathers.
toMUCHskillHD 8 months ago
@toMUCHskillHD
I did....because I was more interested in the Japanese side anyway. Im leaning towsrds liking Letters from Iwo Jima better as the Japanese soldiers (well, some officers) may have been fucking dicks but a lot of them looked like decent people. How the US marines acted was a bit more annoying. Then again ive seen enough roughhousing/macho bullshit IRL so the marines' behavior reminded me of that more hence my bias.
Warsie 7 months ago
@Warsie It's true, we always percieve the Japanese as these animalistic killers out for American blood, but ultimately many of them were as brave and courageous as us in many aspects. However, not so sure about most of them being good people esp. the ones who attacked China... the idea of Japanese supremacy was pretty well stamped in and the Japanese style of subjugation took war back 600 years.
horeslayer 7 months ago
@horeslayer
regarding the second sino-japanese war, I guess it depended on the soldiers. The Nanjing Incident shows there was a lot of dickishness, and some of that came from officers ("three alls" policy in northern China). Not to mention other things.
Warsie 7 months ago
@Warsie doesn't matter... If I was the one doing the killing, raping and stealing, even if I was just following orders, I would still be very much in the wrong.
horeslayer 7 months ago
@horeslayer
the massacres in china were well helped by chinese collaborators who served japanese interest, just like french collaborators helped nazis during France occupation. Lot of people tend to forget that, that's was the same in indochina and dutch colonies in Asia. The european forces in these countries collaborated to the massacres too.
Japanese imperialism was evil, but the worst is that big part of german or japanese soldiers were maintened in ignorance about that.
tatianaf1000 1 month ago
@tatianaf1000 Helped is a key word here. The Japanese were still largely the ones who carried it out. Does that mean that every Japanese soldier knew about this across the front? Of course not. Did the Japanese military leadership still sanction this massacre? Absolutely.
horeslayer 1 month ago
@horeslayer
i agree but the collaborators (the elites ones at least) perfectly knew that what the japaense elite was doing was bad, but they still choose to collaborate (the same as nazi collaborators), what means that they are at last as responsible as them, i think that these collaborators were never judged and some of them highly participate in some crimes like the Naking massacre.
People tend to forget that these collaborators were one of the reasons of japan "sucess"to conquer and kill.
tatianaf1000 1 month ago
@tatianaf1000 I'm not arguing that they're just as guilty, but it was the Japanese's idea and it certainly doesn't detract from their role as the main perpetrators. Just because someone else helped doesn't make them any less guilty.
horeslayer 1 month ago
It's a shame we glorify hideous monsters. We should bury and forget those men rather than give them pride and respect. They don't deserve it.
Redtrooper2 8 months ago
@Redtrooper2 What monsters?
TheRedLuigi 7 months ago
Ken Watanabe was a PERFECT pick for this movie. He is one of my favorite actors to begin with. One thing I strongly suggest, is watching first "Flags of our Fathers" and then "Letters from Iwo-Jima" together. It makes the story of the battle all the more poignant.
darkyoda 8 months ago
I will never understand how war is until were in one.
toMUCHskillHD 9 months ago
did the american live or die ????
chucknorris742617000 9 months ago
@chucknorris742617000 dead in the morning of second day, with smile on his face
Kuromuts 9 months ago
ANYONE WHO FUKENS talk shit about Eastwood can KISS MY aSS!!!!!!!!
KillerXify 10 months ago 37
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japanese marines and japanese navy fought bravely in iwo jima if you dont agree go read a book about iwo jima.180000 americans against 20000 japaneses...
at least they fought for their country.
iam not saying that the americans were cowards NO! they fought bravely too
GuillovesUK 10 months ago
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japanese marines and japanese navy fought bravely in iwo jima if you dont agree go read a book about iwo jima.180000 americans against 20000 japaneses...
at least they fought for their country.
i am not saying that the americans were cowards NO! they fought bravely too
GuillovesUK 10 months ago
This film is a lot better than Saving Private Ryan.
LiamCrowley1990 11 months ago 2
His movie Grantrino is also great movie!!!
mi622na 11 months ago
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Clint eastwood is great director!! I love him, so I watched IWOJIMA,I have both DVD,but I didnt watch American side movie yet. but I'll watch it soon. my grandfather had went to IWOJIMA as a soilder,he could go to home.I had never talk with grandfather about war during he live.
I want not to say which is right or wrong,both people ware thinking we are right. every War is so. both soilder having brave and loving familiy. so this is great movie ever!!! Clint's Grantrino is also great movie!!!
mi622na 11 months ago
I really like how he put scenes from flags of our fathers in Letters, really lets us know that its all clint eastwood, great movies both of them.
BTW, everybody, today, as I type this comment, it is the date of the flag raising over Mt. Suribachi, pray with me, and lets honor the souls of those that lost their lives on that Island.
semperfisemperceler 11 months ago
These are two films that SHOULD have won best picture hands down. Instead we got... what? I can't even remember.
tumppu1975 1 year ago
クールな悲しい映画
MrThunfischpizza1 1 year ago
is the other called flags from iwo jima?
soulleskill 1 year ago
@soulleskill "Flags of our Fathers"
Toddinfantry 1 year ago
@soulleskill
no it was flags from our fathers
Warsie 7 months ago
hands down ! >-- Downfall was the best
TheEmpireStartsHere 1 year ago
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"War does not determine who is right, it just determines who is left."
xx35j2 1 year ago
best film ive ever seen
Eltzic9 1 year ago 2
Great film. Better than anything that ass wipe Spike Lee ever produced.
RadarGuidedVermin 1 year ago
This is way better than Flags of Our Fathers. Letters of Iwo Jima made an impact on me, whereas Flags of Our Fathers in my opinion just was a war movie among others.
I guess its the cultural differences. Americans just attack a place with totally overpowered forces and cry, when 10 of their own die. The Japanese were blown to pieces, but many of them just fought on.
Then again, mabye I see resemblance between this war and the Winter war and thus cheer for the Japanese in this movie...
SaunaFinland 1 year ago 2
@SaunaFinland true my friend nut their all movies you never know how it really was .
megadarkwarrior 1 year ago
@SaunaFinland true my friend but their all movies you never know how it really was .
megadarkwarrior 1 year ago
he shud of won...
killajw 1 year ago
i laugh when i seen that cover art for iwo jima
手纸=toliet paper!
sam9116 1 year ago
@sam9116 Original meaning of the word was a paper in a pocket or on your desk. Chinese used it as toilet paper. Japanese used it for memo paper.
vv88vv88 1 year ago
@sam9116 No. It's 手紙 not 手纸 ;) And it doesn't mean memo paper as w88w88 said, it's just "letter" nowadays. I can imagine it's fun for Chinese people though ^^
Paraplueschi 1 year ago
My Father was in World War II. He was in the Navy Air Corps. They treated the Japanese Detainees very well. They gave them the food to prepare the way they wanted it, and they gave them whatever was needed to sustain them. They never tortured them. Wish I could say the same for the Japanese to our American Soldiers. Yes, war is a terrible thing. War is a punishment for sin. Man's inhumanity to man is due to a flawed soul! Let the Japanese make their own film.
caroln1858 1 year ago
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Why would someone want to make a movie which shows the enemy killing our American men, and in their perspective? Clint Eastwood stinks!
caroln1858 1 year ago
@caroln1858 Didnt you watch the video? Clint made a movie first on the american side and then a movie on the other side, japan. it show the humanity of the two sides and the inhumanity of the war
xradio86 1 year ago
@caroln1858 your stupid u probably play cod waw all day. Im american and i actually like it more wen directors show a bunch of americans dieing u know y? because litterally every movie is with a bunch of Germans Italians and japanese getting killed when they were just like us. And this was the first movie i saw from the axis prospective. This is my favorite ww2 movie hands down. I hate fellow americans like u, go kill urself from getting mad from that unrealistic cod waw shit.
XxDarkShadowzZ 1 year ago
First of all, thanks for uploading this. Second, no matter what country you are from, no one will like the horrors of war. It's a cruel world we live in, and hopefully the United States, no, the world, to ever have a battle like Iwo Jima. I pay my respects.
chrisjin11 1 year ago
This was better than flags of our fathers in my opinion.
MrCardife 1 year ago 2
Wonderful movie, Not alot of movies I know that portays the enemy's point of view.
imanoob4 1 year ago
i wish they woukd play it in the cinema :((
JaguarKinG95 1 year ago
Japanese were brave in world war 2
lol02468 1 year ago 10
@lol02468 yeah, especially when they were slaughtering chinese
B1SCOOP 1 year ago
@lol02468 yes they were brave, but also cruel, disgusting, unhuman and etc... this movie were focused only in fancy... they showed a captain who is kind to the prisoners and a soldier who is incapable to kill a fly all this with a honorific music... amazing bullshit!
kitsune090 7 months ago
@kitsune090 different culture.
lol02468 6 months ago
letters was much better than flags because it was actually about the conflict instead of about the selling bond
eastern2western 1 year ago
how can the guy at 4:20 get hit when the shots gets past him ?? :/
omgomg113 1 year ago
@omgomg113
When the plane shoots like that, it's not plain bullets going down. They aren't straight forward, since the aircraft isn't. It moves in the air, even though the sands is a straight line. Well almost, so i can see your point ;)
HASLUM 1 year ago
Eastwood is senile and is dishonest. There was only one US marine taken prisoner by the Japs on Iwo his name was Ralph Ignatowski. Compare the film with reality.
poeds 1 year ago
@poeds sorry buddy, but actually two marines were taken. They were Ralph and Lt. Sokol
777seventy 1 year ago
@777seventy it was many more you're noob...
sorry but actually many did get prisoner...
GuitarNiimura 1 year ago
@poeds just one ? lol
it was many you're noob...
idiot...
Use you're brain kid...
GuitarNiimura 1 year ago
@poeds read at wikipedia huh?
I read MANY MANY books about the pacific war and almost EVERY causality thing there is WRONG!!!
But you american is best people can NEVER see the truth can you?
I seriousley feel sorry for you people... but it will always be ignorance and stupidity in our world...
But thinking that just one of about 110 thousand american invaders did survive or get catched by japanese is JUST stupidity....
GuitarNiimura 1 year ago
Iwo Jima must have been a hell
TheBartinater1 1 year ago
@TheBartinater1 yeah...
It is a reason that the people who were fighting at that island say that they not fear hell because they have been there already...
GuitarNiimura 1 year ago
Class film!
One of the best war films ever!
It gets across a different culture and point of point of view to an american audience which is no bad thing.
By the end of this film you have a profound respect for the normal Japanese soldiers and indeed soldiers of any nation.
zenoist2 1 year ago
clin eastwood is a gread director....
dcperez87 1 year ago
This movie and Flags of our Fathers were filmed at the same time right? The beach attack looked familiar I think its from Flags of our Fathers.......
Potcharadanai 1 year ago
WOW incredible film. It shows the concept view of a Japanese slodier, that they died with honor and for their country.
gilbertrivas17 1 year ago
What a film. I feel that the comments below suffices as an explanation for my deep admiration for this masterpiece. It is a film I will never forget.
PhoenixSF90 1 year ago
This and Der Untergang are my favorite movies.
CandyVolcano 1 year ago
This is unlike the typical Spielberg epics of 'Saving Private Ryan' that only exist to highlight the brutality and savagery of all war. Instead, Eastwood's approach is incredibly original and more builds itself on the foundation of its characters rather than actual battle.
It is sad to think that such a fine piece of work is underrated heavily considering its improvement from 'Flags of our Fathers'. One of the best I've seen.
Aristotle312 1 year ago
@tokyocityrat Europeans also forced many people in many partsof Asia to become addicted to opium and were forced to pay taxes for opium
sniperscreed33 1 year ago
were did they film this?
esspecialy the mt. sarabachtin parts?
newcomster 1 year ago
i have so much respect for Clint Eastwood. The man sees things for what they really are. "it boils down to young men being sent off to end their lives prematurely, no matter what side your on". which brings me to the statement of "in war there is no victor" PERIOD.
spitfirez89 1 year ago
best war movie i loved it
recoveryprankcalls 1 year ago
Nice movie! I love it!
methodologist 1 year ago
Clint Eastwood is a hero. :))
dan020350 1 year ago
good job for clint eastwood
dan020350 1 year ago
I've seen many, many war movies and Letters From Iwo Jima by far one of the best I've ever seen. I will never in my lifetime understand why it didn't win best picture. Truly an amazing film that touches all of humanity no matter what race or nationality you are.
420Guitar420 1 year ago 57
I'm pretty sure it didn't win cause Clint Eastwood is a republican. For example, Why did Gran Torino not get nominated for anything!?
ryanalan29 1 year ago
@ryanalan29 Pretty interesting that a Republican would make an anti-war film.
420Guitar420 1 year ago
This isn't an anti-war film.
ryanalan29 1 year ago
@ryanalan29 It clearly is.
420Guitar420 1 year ago
Nope. It's not. Sorry!
ryanalan29 1 year ago
@ryanalan29 gran torino was amazing
zeek997733 1 year ago
@420Guitar420 i agree.. but i dont actually believe in awards,, you dont need an award just to know theyre good, it's an awesome movie
kisay69 1 year ago 2
@420Guitar420 Would you rate it as highly as missing in action 2?
gillyssquashball 1 year ago
@420Guitar420 I agree with you BIG TIME!!!!
mymichellebelle 1 year ago
@420Guitar420 Definately dude. It was much better than The Departed. It was ridiculously better. Thumbs up.
09tranm 1 year ago
@420Guitar420 they should make a version of this but in Iraq, from both perspectives.
VoiceOfTheEmpeor 1 year ago
@420Guitar420 i think it won best foreign movie or sometin
PinoyDude753 11 months ago
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Nationsnotregimes 1 year ago
Letters and Flags are excellent films.
RDKF13 2 years ago 12
@RDKF13 I felt that Flags of Our Fathers was a bit difficult to follow because it would go from Iwo Jima to after and back to Iwo Jima.
jermster17 1 year ago
boom
mex123ish 2 years ago
ah, i did not see your post and commented above ). these were main reasons, along some others of course
MrPpavlouk 2 years ago
yes, this is true. but you have to learn why the Peal Harbor attack was made. the Japs were not completely crazy and started attacking. Of course I do not justify the Japanese Empire launching the attack, but they had a reason, and of course it was the very very last alternative for them to attack. From what I read and think, I believe so.
MrPpavlouk 2 years ago