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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...
...There was criticism that Hollywood made a number of cultural errors in The Last Samurai. Is Iwo Jima truer to the Japanese spirit? I think so. The Last Samurai is a fiction. But with this film we were very thorough when it came to the historical facts. We paid attention to the smallest detail...
...What did you learn as you researched your character, Lieut. General Kuribayashi, and the story of Japan's defense of Iwo Jima? He was a commanding officer, so I was interested in how this war began, how they made such a mistake and ended up on the wrong path. I re-studied the war because I could not understand the thinking process he went through. It was a good chance for me to find out that there were people like Kuribayashi who fought in such a way, to find out how much they suffered...
...LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA...