Letters from Iwo Jima

Hello everyone, boy has it been an insane month. Finishing off my fall semester, crazyness malls, crowded streets. It's just been a busy month i guess you can say. It's only after christmas that it has been ok to just hang around not having to worry about doing errands. actually only thing to worry about is finding a party to go to for new years eve hahaha. But its ok. New Years isnt a big thing for me i havent celebrated it like the big kids. So i'm not expecting much...

So my bro's been wanting to watch this film for awhile. I guess he did some research which lead him to some info to find where this film was playing. The ARCLIGHT, in Hollywood, where it plays movies in a Cinerama Dome, at 11:05 was where we were going. I haven't seen a war movie in quite sometime, i think the last one i've watched in the theater was probably.... saving private ryan? i'm actually not sure haha i guess thats how long its been.

Anyways, Letters from Iwo Jima is bascially about the war between the U.S. vs Japan in World War 2. This film is the opposite side of the film Flags of Our Fathers. It's bascially the Japanese side of the story. I have yet to see the movie Flags of Our Fathers so i can't really compare the two films. So you can make that decision to pick which one you want to watch first. Both are directed by Clint Eastwood too. So they both can be equally as good.

The movie is told in the perspective of a japanese soldier who fought and lived through it. I thought this movie was really good. This movie is actually in japanese, and runs for about two hours and thirty minutes. Thiers soo much going on, that i didn't think it felt that long. Thier were stories told, as well as side stories of some individual soldiers, and of course war scenes.
Thier were some familiar faces that were in this film, which included Ken Wanatabe who was in the Last Samurai, and Shido Nakamura who was in Fearless.

I thought the movie was pretty intense, like all war movies, you can see how crazy wars were/are from watching so many die and suffer. Watching your friends, officers, and practically everyone around you die. The feeling of knowing you can die at any moment, or knowing that you WILL die with no hope left. This was a good movie to watch, some of you may even cry. I know i got watery eyed at some point of the film. But none the less it was a good film to watch so GO WATCH IT!! it's only in select cities so be on the watch.