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Letters from Iwo Jima

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63 feature instances
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Letters from Iwo Jima	comment	Letters from Iwo Jima is the 2006 P.O.V. Sequel to Flags of Our Fathers, which was also directed by Clint Eastwood, providing a Perspective Flip to Imperial Japan, the antagonists of the first film.Inspired by the book Picture Letters from the Commander and Chief, a compilation of whimsically illustrated letters sent by the Japanese commander of the Iwo Jima garrison to his family, the film explores the back stories of some of Iwo Jima's doomed defenders (fewer than 1% would ultimately survive) in the form of their last letters home — letters written but never sent.Despite being an American production, the film is almost entirely in Japanese. Characters include Gen. Tadamichi Kuribayashi (Ken Watanabe), the commander of the island and a decent man who doodles drawings on letters home to his wife and family; Saigo, a Mildly Military private who only wants to go home to his wife and family, and Shimizu, a new arrival to Saigo's squad who Saigo suspects of being a spy for State Sec.
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_12a22bd8	type	Katanas Are Just Better
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_12a22bd8	comment	Katanas Are Just Better: Mostly defied; the officers carry katana (specifically Shin guntÅ�) as part of their uniforms, but the gun and boat battles prevent any real use. Their mystique is still alluded to when an American admires one blade after confiscating it from Fujita's corpse.
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: From the trailer, and the flashback scene of Kuribayashi at a dinner in the US before the war.
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_19d06ef7	type	A Father to His Men
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_19d06ef7	comment	A Father to His Men: General "I will always be right in front of you" Kuribayashi.
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_20860a0e	type	Punch-Clock Villain
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_20860a0e	comment	Punch-Clock Villain: Saigo, who is specifically shown to be a unwilling draftee. He's also never shown actually fighting against the Americans, perhaps to ensure he retains the target audience's sympathy
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: You didn't really think the M1911 Kuribayashi was gifted would show up that much and not get used, did you? On himself, that is.
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_22f6000b	type	Everybody's Dead, Dave
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_22f6000b	comment	Everybody's Dead, Dave: Everyone except Saigo and possibly Lieutenant Ito dies.
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_2737c505	comment	Shoot the Dog: A literal example. Nishi's horse Jupiter to some extent.
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_2a3006e5	type	State Sec
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_2a3006e5	comment	State Sec: The Kempeitai, the Japanese Military Police. Saigo and his squadmates suspect that Shimizu is a member of the former sent to spy on them for their unpatriotic words.
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_2af6bbeb	type	Break the Haughty
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_2af6bbeb	comment	Break the Haughty: Lt. Ito, who goes from being an all around incompetent officer who wishes to dies a Glorious Death ends up not only surviving the battle, but also broken, exhausted, and in American captivity by the end of the film.
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Shimizu's superior accuses a harmless family dog of being a potential disturbance to Army Communications and orders him to put it to death. He goes back and does the job himself after Shimizu fakes the execution.
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_35f57671	type	Minion with an F in Evil
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_35f57671	comment	Minion with an F in Evil: Shimizu just couldn't shoot the dog.
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_372bc105	type	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_372bc105	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: Leaning a fair bit more to the cynical side.
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_3931557e	type	Storming the Beaches
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_3931557e	comment	Storming the Beaches: The US Marines do this at the start of the invasion, naturally. Thanks to the island's underground defenses, they suffer heavy casualties trying to move further inland. Eventually, they manage to wipe out the Japanese defenders stationed near the beaches.
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: We already know how the Battle of Iwo Jima ends. Their orders were not to win... only to kill ten Americans apiece before they themselves were killed.
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_3f6d2c98	type	Cold Sniper
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_3f6d2c98	comment	Cold Sniper: One Marine sniper appears at the end of the film, and kills Lt. Fujita before he can Mercy Kill Gen. Kuribayashi.
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_423a91bd	type	Uncle Sam Wants You
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_423a91bd	comment	The captured American soldier whose wounds they treat is called Sam.
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: The Japanese forces (or at least a large amount of them) would rather engage in futile and suicidal attacks because they deem it to be more honorable than fighting smart, something that frustrates Kuribayashi to no end. Worse than that, many of them don't even bother fighting after a certain point, they just shoot themselves in the face or blow themselves up with grenades.
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: Kuribayashi withdraws his men from the beaches to fight from caves and tunnels rather then wasting them in the pointless (but honorable) suicide attacks his subordinates would prefer. Saigo also holds little truck with "honorable suicide" for various reasons and prefers unconventional tactics (compared to IJA standards) in the field. Needness to say, this doesn't make him too popular with some of his fellow soldiers.
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_4bc2e65e	type	Surrender Backfire
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_4bc2e65e	comment	Surrender Backfire: The soldiers who surrender to an American patrol are summarily shot instead of being taken prisoner. The discovery of their bodies reinforces the belief that surrender is not an option and that suicidal attacks are preferable to capture.
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: One man dies sitting upright with half his face gone during an air raid. There are also various limbs lost during the battle itself, people attacked with flamethrowers, blown up at point blank range...
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Lt. Okubo gives his life saving the remaining soldiers under his command, by taking out an American machine gun position with a grenade.
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_6480c255	type	Robbing the Dead
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_6480c255	comment	Robbing the Dead: The Americans take Kiribayashi's M1911 and Fujita's katana after they die.
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_6b510ace	type	Hopeless War
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_6b510ace	comment	Hopeless War: You realize the full extent of how hopeless it is for the Japanese when the film shows the American fleet: hundreds of ships (including various battleships and carriers), transporting marines in overwhelming numbers and all the air and artillery support they need. This comes after one of the characters estimates the ships coming as "30, 50 at the most", and once he leaves the cave and sees them for himself, he is dumbfounded.
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Saigo's name can mean "last", as in the last one left alive. The captured American soldier whose wounds they treat is called Sam.
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Colonel Adachi knows the section his troops are defending will not be held, and requests Kuribayashi to let them commit suicide for the failure. Kuribayashi tells him to move over to his location, but Adachi disobeys and orders his troops to commit suicide regardless. Only Saigo, Shimizu (convinced by Saigo that their general ordered them to not do this anyway) and a few others leave from Mount Suribachi alive. Kuribayashi, injured as the battle reaches its end, kills himself with his M1911. Granted, he tried a slightly different method, but his adjutant Fujita was shot dead while trying to do so.
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_760b2270	type	The Dreaded Toilet Duty
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_760b2270	comment	The Dreaded Toilet Duty: Saigo is chosen by his commander to dump out the "poop pail" that his squad has been using while hunkered in their bunkers on the island. The commander urges Saigo not to lose the pail, "or you will carry out our poop with your hands." As Saigo emerges from the bunker, he sees the enormous American fleet poised to invade, and drops the pail in astonishment. Poor Saigo then has to fish the pail out of a ditch as the naval shelling starts.
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_7b23aecb	type	Bayonet Ya
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_7b23aecb	comment	Bayonet Ya: A horrifying example done to the captured Marine.
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_805e2846	type	Just Like Us
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_805e2846	comment	Just Like Us: Shimizu and the others discover this after they talk with a captured American soldier and read a letter from his mother.
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_820133fd	type	Tragic Hero
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_820133fd	comment	Tragic Hero: Kuribayashi, both in the movie and in real life. Sent to Iwo Jima because of his "soft" attitudes, suspected American sympathies and advocacy of "defeatist" defensive tactics, Kuribayashi inspired his men to use those defensive tactics to inflict more casualties on his American friends than any other Japanese general. His American opponent General Howland M. "Howling Mad" Smith called him "The most redoubtable foe" while to the common soldier he was the "Best damn general on this stinking island" and "Let's hope the Japs don't have any more like him."
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_8560c16f	type	Fatal Family Photo
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_8560c16f	comment	Fatal Family Photo: One soldier often seen looking at his family photographs later commits suicide with a grenade, splashing them with blood.
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: General Hayashi and Admiral Ichimaru, General Kuribayashi's fellow high-ranking officers, disappear as the Battle of Iwo Jima rages on, and remain unaccounted for. Given the deteriorating situation for the Japanese and their tendency to either commit suicide over surrender or die fighting, it's very likely that both men were Killed Offscreen.
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_8a9eb844	type	Perspective Flip
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_8a9eb844	comment	Perspective Flip: After Flags of Our Fathers covered this battle from the American perspective, this film covers it from the Japanese perspective.
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_8b606a51	type	There Is No Kill Like Overkill
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_8b606a51	comment	There Is No Kill Like Overkill: The pre-invasion bombardment. By one reckoning the US expended more than 26 tons of munitions for every Japanese soldier on the island over the course of the battle, from 16 inch down to .45 ACP. A rare example of the protagonist on the receiving end.
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_8c1ad82f	type	Proud Warrior Race Guy
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_8c1ad82f	comment	Proud Warrior Race Guy: Baron Nishi represents the noble side of the Japanese warrior tradition in direct contrast to Lt. Ito.
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_90bc139e	type	Justified Title
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_90bc139e	comment	Justified Title: The film ends with archeologists having dug up the letters from the Japanese soldiers on Iwo Jima that Saigo hid in a bag in the ground after burning the other documents and Kuribayashi's military chest.
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_99298c71	type	Better to Die than Be Killed
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_99298c71	comment	Better to Die than Be Killed: The "honourable" way of doing things according to the Empire, which includes ordering the entire battalion to go on a hopeless suicide mission. Many soldiers are clearly unhappy about this. Not that it stops them.
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: Marine flamethrower operators are shown clearing Japanese fortifications, and the result is not pretty.
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: The torture of a captured Marine is a reference to Iggy's death in Flags of Our Fathers. Similarly, the scene in Flags where Doc sees an unseen horror in a cave runs on from a scene in Letters where some Japanese soldiers commit seppuku with hand grenades. The flamethrower operator from Flags of Our Fathers is shown clearing out the same pillboxes he did in the first film.
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_9fd18130	type	Animals Hate Him
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_9fd18130	comment	Animals Hate Him: A dog incessantly barks at Shimizu's superior because it either doesn't like his smell or senses an aura of wicked evil coming from him. It doesn't end well for the dog.
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_a0ce7213	type	My Girl Back Home
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_a0ce7213	comment	My Girl Back Home: Mostly Saigo's young wife Hanako, whom he writes to, and is shown begging him not to leave. They also have a baby daughter he's never met.
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_a1d70162	type	I Just Shot Marvin in the Face
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_a1d70162	comment	I Just Shot Marvin in the Face: When Saigo is ordered to defend a destroyed machine gun emplacement with his rifle, he responds by cocking it in his commanding officer's direction. The officer quickly rethinks the order.
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_a63fd70f	type	The Promise
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_a63fd70f	comment	The Promise: Saigo promises his unborn baby that he will return home alive. He apparently keeps it.
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_a6c69bd	type	MacGuffin
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_a6c69bd	comment	The MacGuffin: the bag of letters written by Japanese soldiers on the island found by modern day archeologists in a cave. They were originally hidden by Saigo just before the end of the movie.
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Saigo is sent outside to empty the latrine bucket and discovers the ocean is literally covered with American warships from horizon to horizon—just in time for the opening gun of one of the largest naval bombardments in history.
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_affa0e5d	type	Bling-Bling-BANG!
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_affa0e5d	comment	Bling-Bling-BANG!: General Kuribayashi's special M1911 sports an ivory grip with gold-leaf stars branded inside.
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_b7248073	comment	My Country, Right or Wrong: Kuribayashi (and the American general), in a scene at a dinner in the US.
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_bc74ef27	comment	Saigo isn't even all that threatening when he gets enraged from seeing a Marine have Kuribayashi's M1911 and kinda has the jump on said soldier to strike him with his shovel. He swings futilely at the man repeatedly and never hits him! (granted, he was certainly suffering from lack of food and water)
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_be991863	comment	The Neidermeyer: Lieutenant Ito, who is pretty much incompetent in doing anything outside of having soldiers executed, be it having a number of his men killed in a pointless counterattack or getting more men killed trying to cross a small ravine. Captain Tanida embodies this trope even more. In every one of his scenes, he is depicted brutally bullying the soldiers under his command in some form or another. In particular, he seems to enjoy making Pvt. Saigo's life a living hell. Hell, in his final act alive, he orders his troops to commit suicide. There's a guy you want to work for!
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Ito seems to be insistent on dying in battle, and leaves everyone else to hope to destroy a tank by lying in wait with mines attached to him. He later grows tired of waiting when nothing comes by and heads back to the (emptied) caves, and is last seen in the film being found by a group of Marines...making him the only other implied survivor in the movie.
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_caf89e54	comment	Taking You with Me: The entire point of the battle. The Americans are going to win and the Japanese defenders know it, so the only thing left is to sell their lives at as high a cost as possible.note It worked. Unlike most other Pacific battles where the Japanese suffered much higher casualties than the Americans, at Iwo Jima the Japanese actually inflicted more casualties than they took. Of course the Japanese casualties were almost all killed while the Americans were mostly wounded.
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_cbdd9a55	type	We ARE Struggling Together
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_cbdd9a55	comment	We ARE Struggling Together: The movie faithfully portrays the endemic Interservice Rivalry between the Imperial Army and Navy, as well as the indiscipline and anarchic gekokujÅ� dynamic of the Army as a whole. Despite Kuribayashi's orders, various junior officers either succumb to despair or decide to go out in a blaze of glory, taking their men on pointless suicide missions that ultimately do little to slow down the American advance.
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_cc1bd54d	type	Non-Action Guy
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_cc1bd54d	comment	Non-Action Guy: Saigo can't even handle a rifle properly, and the only reason he survives is because he's smart/cowardly enough to hang back from wherever there's violence. Kuribayashi mistakes his survival instincts for fighting skills and is corrected. Kuribayashi later takes advantage of Saigo's survival instincts by entrusting him with the bag of letters. Saigo isn't even all that threatening when he gets enraged from seeing a Marine have Kuribayashi's M1911 and kinda has the jump on said soldier to strike him with his shovel. He swings futilely at the man repeatedly and never hits him! (granted, he was certainly suffering from lack of food and water)
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Similarly, the scene in Flags where Doc sees an unseen horror in a cave runs on from a scene in Letters where some Japanese soldiers commit seppuku with hand grenades.
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_d833090a	type	Right Hand Versus Left Hand
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_d833090a	comment	Right Hand Versus Left Hand: The Japanese Navy officers clearly resent working with Army General Kuribayashi right from the start - they weren't even letting the Army troops in on the defensive plan. As the battle actually happens, Navy Lieutenant Ito does it more openly by having troops make a (clearly futile) attack instead of continuing to fight from the caves at Kuribayashi's orders.
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_dc9b1fe9	type	Cue the Sun
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_dc9b1fe9	comment	Cue the Sun: At the end of the battle the sun dawns over the sea.
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_dd51740f	type	P.O.V. Sequel
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_df858e81	type	Shoot the Medic First
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_e4b69188	type	Very Loosely Based on a True Story
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_e4b69188	comment	Very Loosely Based on a True Story: Several incidents, such as Lt. Ito's poignantly pathetic anti-tank strategy, are taken straight from the pages of history. Others, such as the blinding of Lt. Colonel Nishi, were rumored but could never be confirmed. No one knows what really happened to General Kuribayashi as no surviving witnesses ever came forward, but the official story is he died on his feet while disguised as a common infantryman.
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_f1d6144a	type	War Is Hell
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_f1d6144a	comment	War Is Hell: And this is the Ninth Circle.
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_f3626b09	type	Mercy Kill
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_f3626b09	comment	Mercy Kill: Kuribayashi is injured and orders his adjutant Fujita to behead him. Unfortunately for them both, Fujita is shot by a Marine as he stands and raises his sword.
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_f7cee9b	type	Last Stand
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_f7cee9b	comment	Last Stand: A given. Their only options were; die fighting; commit suicide; or be executed for treason.
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Letters from Iwo Jima / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Shimizu is mostly very quiet, feared to be from the Kempeitai and showed the possibility he'd shoot Saigo for not committing suicide like the other soldiers in his troop (he is convinced otherwise and doesn't go through with it). After Saigo tells him he's going to surrender and dares him to arrest him, he tells him he was actually discharged from the Kempeitai: he pretended to shoot a family's dog his superior ordered him to, but the dog barked while they were leaving and accidentally tipped off his superior who then had him discharged for insubordination. The American Lieutenant who's part of the squad who captures Saigo. Even as Saigo goes berserk and begins swinging wildly at the squad with his shovel, the Lieutenant refuses to allow the squad to shoot him, and instead continues to try to calm him down until a private manages to incapacitate him.
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