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...screenplay, based on a book of letters written by General Tadamichi Kuribayashi to his wife, adds historic validity as well as emotional sincerity to the film. The actors, all Japanese, speak in their native language, the fluency further easing audiences into the story...
Yamashita's script is much more relentlessly cruel. In essence, the Japanese officers compelled the bravery (and suicide) of their troops at gunpoint. Only the Japanese commander, Lieut. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi (a mysterious historical figure who fascinates Eastwood), and a fictional conscript, Saigo, whose fate Yamashita intertwines with his commanding officer's, demonstrate anything like humanity as a Westerner might understand it. The lieutenant general, educated in part in the U.S., is respectful of its national spirit (and industrial might) and believes that a live soldier, capable of carrying on the fight, is infinitely more valuable than a dead...
...bitter as any the world has known had raged on Iwo Jima, drenching its black ash beaches, ravines and cliffs in blood. The Japanese garrison was being squeezed into an ever smaller band around the northern shore, but it was fighting with D-day savagery. Its commander, Lieut. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi, was still in radio contact with Tokyo. Most of the defenders had ample food and water (although some isolated positions had been short of water in the first days of the campaign). They had only a few mortars and cannon left, but they used them often and well...
Radio Tokyo last week described the defender of Iwo Jima, Lieut. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi, as a commander whose "partly protruding belly is packed full of strong fighting spirit." It quoted him: "This island is the front line that defends our mainland, and I am going to die here...
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