"Iwo Jima からの手纸"

PS: Iwo Jima is part of the Japanese volcanic archipelago, belonging to the Ogasawara Islands in the Western Pacific. The island is almost exactly east of Taipei and just south of Tokyo, more than a thousand kilometers away from Tokyo. The U.S. forces occupied Iwo Jima, and heavy bombers set off from here, bombing all of Japan. From February 19 to March 26, 1945, the most tragic war on the Pacific battlefield in World War II broke out here. The Japanese army fought against the landing on an almost completely isolated island. With 20,000 people and relying on fortifications, it fought against one hundred thousand U.S. troops for a full month. If the Japanese army’s reserves of ammunition and supplies were not exhausted, I am afraid that the U.S. military’s victory would have not been so. fast. For this small projectile island located at a strategic point, the U.S. military has paid a terrible price of nearly 7,000 deaths and 19,000 wounded.

I don't like Japan, even though I study Japanese, even though I also like to watch Japanese dramas or Japanese movies.
But it is difficult for a Chinese to like Japan.
After all, history is true. He reminds us all the time, what is war and what is enemy.
However, the impact of this movie is to make me reflect on the country and the people. To put it simply, everyone who fights is actually a flesh and blood.
Iwo Jima? Almost forgotten about geography, I can't remember his exact location.
Just know that this is about World War II, about the Pacific War.
And the casualties were heavy.
At the beginning of the film, the Second Palace was writing to his wife, saying that we kept digging, and what we dug was actually our own grave.
I said that everyone who fights has children, daughters, and parents.
No one wants to fight.
The war is actually the will of the country, but it is forced on the people.
Xixiang played by Ninomiya is just an ordinary baker, and his wife is still pregnant.
He was thinking about how to go home and how to see his daughter.
There is no limit to what a hero means, everyone is a hero.
Just like the definition of right and evil in "CRASH" is never certain.
I don't like the so-called heroes who charge into battle in the Chinese war movies. Everyone is righteous and awe-inspiring.
That's not real, it's too unreal.
Heroes have always been ordinary, and heroes have thought about running away.
War has always been cruel.
The Japanese are also suicidal, because their people will not forgive them for surrendering.
I wonder if this counts as the sadness of a nation?
The most shocking part of the film is:
"When the Olympic equestrian champion Nishitake, who was crying because his love horse was killed by the bombing, treated a seriously injured American soldier.
When the American soldier died of injuries and died, Nishitake found a letter from his mother. read for everyone.
when that fantasy home to reunite with his wife, waving a shovel look after their own unborn daughter buried Xixiang Lin Su Su Lin beloved pistol away toward the American soldiers ...... "
all of these measures have to bear in mind mind.
No matter how nasty the Japanese are, they are humans just like us. They are all looking forward to returning home and looking forward to ending the war.
As Shimizu said: I thought all Americans were timid, but when I read that letter, I realized that his mother is no different from mine.
The same charge, the same worry.

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