After watching the movie, I wanted to know the authenticity, so I searched for the information. The Tadao Kuribayashi mentioned in the film is a real person. He indeed went to Harvard in the United States and studied military affairs in the United States. He is indeed a rare "American Master" in the Japanese military. In 1945, he was responsible for commanding the battle guidance of Iwo Jima. Iwo Jima is Japan's inherent land, so if the U.S. forces hit Iwo Jima, it is equivalent to entering Japan. The Japanese authorities definitely want to fight to the death. Therefore, it is not impossible that even the bakers are on the battlefield mentioned in the film. After all, by the time of the Iwo Jima battle, the Japanese were basically called a dying struggle. It was mentioned in the film that the woman who came to conscript, she said that my husband and son were all on the battlefield. It means you don't want to ditch it, okay? Hurry up, your husband is also on the battlefield. Although it is an obligation to defend its own country, and I want to say that Japan is doing its own thing, but as a civilian, I feel very helpless. [Want to continue to live] This is the common wish of most people, right? It is because the perspective is Japanese. If you don't start a war, you won't be sent to the battlefield, right? That's why it makes me feel better to stay away from war. A society is diverse, and every individual is different. It is impossible for everyone to be a bad person. If we can watch this movie based on this, we will see another world. I believe the same was true in the Japanese army at that time. Every place was a microcosm of society. Just as some of us today are clamoring for war, and some of us long for peace. If the Japanese were all kamikaze squads at the time, it is estimated that there are no Japanese in the world now. The real Kuribayashi Tadado has dug a tunnel in Iwo Jima, which is more than 20 kilometers long, turning Iwo Jima into a fortress. He also ordered a ban on suicide assaults. The director also saw the confirmed letter left by Iwo Jima and came up with the idea of making this movie. At that time, Japan must have such a suicide charge, otherwise Kuribayashi would not ban it, but it also confirms what I said above, certainly not every Japanese is so crazy. Of course, it's not that the Japanese are not crazy, you see a scene in the movie. The officer forced the soldiers to die, took a grenade and knocked them on their heads. With a loud noise, they would say goodbye to friends, family, and the world. Isn’t it crazy to force others to do this? Then he gave himself a shot without hesitation. Isn't that crazy enough? Survival is just the most basic biological movement of living beings, even a plant can do it. What makes these people so crazy? Isn't it the brainwashing of militarism? Kase Ryo yelled: Yankees are cowards, we are different, we are not afraid of death. How many people say this in their mouths, and then they are terrified at the moment when the final death is approaching. Many Japanese in the film are like this, it's just human nature. Shouldn’t the Americans be as afraid of being captured? Americans have fathers, mothers and friends. They just have different positions, apart from their positions, everyone is no different. If they weren't born in the war years, everyone would live in peace. In the movie, when Kuribayashi was in the United States, his friend asked him: Is it the will of the country or your own will. I believe Kuribayashi may have a choice. But people like the baker have no choice, right? For civilians like me, I just want the war to stay away from me. Even if the Japanese are not humans, other people who went to war are of flesh and blood.
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