Letters from Iwo Jima

Clint Eastwood's profound anti-war film is the best of its kind by humanizing the enemy that war always dehumanizes. Eastwood's style perfectly matches the subject matter more than with any of his other films. The film is about the battle of Iwo Jima from the Japanese perspective that's Eastwood companion piece to his "The Flags of Our Fathers". The excellent Ken Watanabe stars General Kuribayashi who leads the battle while the equally excellent Kazunari Ninomiya plays a common soldier who's unwillingly fighting and longs to be with his wife and child. The whole cast shines showing that war is hell regardless on which side you are standing. YRCinema's coverage of films on DVD.