Iwo Jima, like Saipan, has already become a world-renowned tourist destination. There is news that a few years ago, Japanese soldiers were found hiding in a cave on the island. When he saw the sun again, he could no longer see, could not speak, as if from a lifetime.
For the tragic battle that happened 64 years ago, the last memory of the veterans may be that the soldiers rushed into the U.S. military position to make a last-ditch effort at the order of General Tadashi Ribayashi. Perhaps it was the days and nights that stayed in the tunnel with his comrades. The Mount Oriba, where 9 layers of tunnels were dug out, can be witnessed. Perhaps, the veterans can still recall more, the island is still beautiful and the scenery is pleasant, but the people on the island have no hope of survival. They can only choose to wait, waiting to dedicate themselves to the country. In such memories, the veterans will not forget, and the comrades who are full of nostalgia for their relatives in their homeland will not forget that they left silently one by one, and they will not forget that the more than 200 unsent letters they wrote down came from Letters from home on Iwo Jima.
After the war, people dug up the letters from their families that failed to reach their loved ones. From those letters to mothers, wives or children, people read the Japanese soldiers' nostalgia for life, fear of death, and inability to part with their family. Even Americans were moved by this. Since then, more than 40 family letters from military officer Tadaichi Kuribayashi have been published as books in Japan. As a result, Tadashi Kuribayashi has become an excellent military representative who is tender, righteous, and responsible in the hearts of the Japanese people. After reading it, Clint Eastwood, the director of "Iwo Jima からの Toilet Paper", finally decided to move the battle of Iwo Jima to the big screen again.
When it comes to movies based on the Battle of Iwo Jima, there is already a well-known "Banner of the Fathers". "The Banner of Our Fathers" looks at the war from an American perspective. The film starts with a flashback of the six soldiers who planted the flag in those years. This scene, which symbolized the United States' capture of positions, was actually recorded by reporters accompanying the army at that time, and it became a watershed in the battle. In this regard, although the Zhebo Mountain is still impregnated, the psychological defense line of the Japanese soldiers gradually disintegrated. However, can it be said that the Japanese army was the loser of the battle? On an island like Iwo Jima, which was almost completely isolated, the Japanese army fought against the landing battle with 20,000 people, relying on the fortifications to resist the 100,000 American troops for a whole month. The projectile island, which the U.S. originally planned to capture in five days, took a full thirty-six days. Su Lin and the Japanese soldiers also won the respect of the US military for their strategy and tenacity. This is why Americans are willing to use films to tell stories for the Japanese. Despite the heavy losses in the battle, the U.S. military eventually gave up the operational plan to attack the Japanese mainland (it is estimated that the losses would be huge). The new operational plan was to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki respectively.
The image of the soldier in the film was conjectured and imagined by director Clint Eastwood in more than 200 letters and selected several main characters. And the image of General Li Lin Zhongdao also added a lot of personal emotional factors. Because on the real battlefield, Kuribayashi Zhongdao is actually a brutal guy. Heinous crimes were committed in China, massacres were carried out in occupied cities such as Guangdong. He's still dead! As a Chinese, some can be recognized, and some are absolutely unforgivable.
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