Word: iwo
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...Samurai, the Japanese actor played the title role as a doomed warrior with nothing left but his honor. He's at it again in his new film, this time as a World War II Japanese officer mounting a last stand against American troops in the critically acclaimed Letters From Iwo Jima. Watanabe, 47, spoke with Time's Michiko Toyama about his role, what it was like working with director Clint Eastwood, and the challenges of being true to the horrors...
...think an American director could tell the story of Iwo Jima from a Japanese perspective? I was curious to see how he would go about it. But even Japanese actors such as myself were entering unknown territory. We didn't know the way soldiers thought at that time or the extent of their patriotism. We told Clint that we had to diligently search for the truth and research historical fact, and he was very understanding...
...LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA...
...corollary of gravity and seriousness only if there is a coherent narrative motive. Otherwise, the film drifts into the horror genre where violence is composed as spectacle for shock value. “Flags of Our Fathers,” the Clint Eastwood historical drama about Marines at Iwo Jima, is possibly the most graphic war movie since “Saving Private Ryan.” But since the gore in both films finds its source in a historical event, the viewer doesn’t become skeptical or alienated when body parts start to fly. Gibson?...
...chose a movie about events that left a hole in the city that still hasn't been filled. The Boston Society of Film Critics picked Martin Scorsese's The Departed, which was shot in Boston. And the Los Angeles Film Critics Association went for Clint Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima, shot in California. But don't make too much of local favorites. The New York Online Film Critics chose The Queen, and the National Board of Review - no one seems to know who the members are, but they vote in New York - selected Iwo Jima. (You can find...