Letters from Iwo Jima: Village scene

[@ksungjin10]

being aware of americas industrial power must have been very daunting.

[@TheMarineRaider]

ksungjin10 favorite scene from the film

[@Tremulousnut]

Some of Japan's commanders (Isoroku Yamamoto for example) were against fighting against the US for that very reason, but when orders come, they have to obey. People respect oppos from the western front like Rommel, but they often forget about the equally respectable Japanese oppos.

[@Tremulousnut]

Internal politics - Don't forget the threat of communism, and the various factions vying for power. If they stopped, they would be in trouble.

[@kuribayashi84]

And the Battle of Midway was almost exactly six months after Pearl Harbor.

[@zainabe9503]

Japan knew they wouldn't win the war. They were fighting so that the Americans would offer a good peace agreement. Maybe why they're expanding so vastly; conquering huge spaces to buy time, until the Americans get tired of the war. The Americans were indeed tired of the war, but it was the jewish international bankers & capitalists that held the whip. Ditto what happens with the British. The majority of the people there pre-war had sympathy for the Germans, but it was the jewish international cliques who held the power and whip and swayed the public opinion.

[@divinemoments5344]

Leaving a concentration of tanks near a village, even if unoperable, was very stupid idea. They'd be too tempring target for airstrikes. The general made a good decision to evacuate the civvies.

[@thitran1362]

This is one a few Japanese general that is good

[@jakec947]

Ken Watanabe was outstanding in this film.

[@wanr5701]

No matter how a serviceman should be dedicated to the cause of the nation, deep inside they are someone's father, mother, brother, sister, son, daughter, husband, wife.

[@jeremydabal9000]

Tadamichi kuribayashi became very emotional and worried about the people of iwo jima, fearing that they might getting in the battle between with the Americans

[@cameronjr8]

I believe this a Japanese Saving Private Ryan

[@TheMarineRaider]

cameronjr8 it's a very interesting movie

[@danigaara8235]

cameronjr8 it same like saving private ryan?

[@joelvannatta3266]

It is Letters from Iwo Jima. It is about the Japanese defense of Iwo Jima against the U.S. Marines. It's told largely from the perspective of General Tadamichi Kuribayashi, who commanded the garrison on the island. He had spent several years in the United States and attended Harvard University before the war.

[@tylerschroeder3722]

I wouldn't say it's better or worse than Saving Private Ryan, it's a different perspective from a different front in WW2. Overall it's a great film!

[@karlsmith6690]

+Jack the Gestapo But the Wehrmacht could provide the Japanese defenders the hi-tech weaponry instead behind the scenes, right? A Waffen SS could have easily soloed the entire American marines imho.

[@Konane117]

atleast they didnt use civvies as cannon fodder...like they did in okinawa.

[@dereenaldoambun9158]

Konane117 Yeah Okinawa was pure brutality.

[@tangocharliedd-2146]

Because in Iwo jima the commander are very modern and open minded

[@msb3235]

General Kuribayashi (portrayed by Ken Watanabe) despite descending from Samurai aristocracy was western educated, he didn't believe in civilian sacrifices like most of Japanese General during that era.

[@tenno5509]

the okinawans werent considered as real japanese by the soldiers

[@daeseongkim93]

Its a racial superiority thing, for the Japanese. Whenever possible they used the non-Japanese colonial conscripts from Korea and Taiwan as the vanguard. And when those are exhausted, the Ryukyuans (Okinawans) and Ainu (Hokkaidoans) and Ogasawarans as they were inferior offshoots of the main Yamato (mainland Japanese). Iwo Jima’s Japanese people were mainly mainland Japanese of the Yamato and were spared the cruelty that the Okinawans had faced. To the Japanese commanders these were sub-people who will protect the mainland Japanese. The Okinawans like the Ainu of the north spoke a different language, it has Japonic influences but still heavily developed independently. Their culture, religion, traditions, and face/physical attributes was different as well. The Okinawans were expendable and their loyalty is also of question because they had long been a tributary kingdom of the Chinese and had good trade relations with them. They had their own government and kingdom, their own sovereign before the Japanese had conquered them and they didnt peacefully submit.

[@sanjaybantawa6274]

Ken Watanabe " the legend".

[@West_Coast_Mainline]

0:15 the soft “banzai” always gets me, i do not know why

[@23Revan84]

Patriotic Japanese being Japanese, before we Americanized them.

[@Glitcher2000]

American streets are full of cars. I hope Kuribayashi stayed there long enough to learn how to say "Eyyyyyy, I'm walkin' here! I'm walkin'!"

[@jonathanramos8414]

Like new yorkers

[@leftbenchplayaa]

This was a damn good movie

[@Itried20takennames]

There are very good videos here on YT showing that most Japanese troops cared little for Japanese civilians, and often “asked” them to rake dangerous jobs, join attacks, commit suicide, etc. The massive number of Japanese civilian dead in Iwo Jima was part of the US decision to use the atomic bombs, because while tragic the number of civilian deaths would be lower than in an invasion.

[@joeswanson733]

it was okinawa that really scared US allied command.

[@victornunes6047]

The saddest part is that USA gave freedom to tons of criminals and allowed them to go back to the government,and they created a denialist policy and hide ALL the atrocities they commited against both Korean and Japanese civilians,and Japanese people nowadays don't know how harsh their grandparents (and Koreans) had back then.

[@Anna-zr1tk]

Yep. And let's not forget that Japanese and Okinawan women and girls were the first ones to be forced by the Japanese army to become 'comfort woman'. The Japanese and Okinawan civilians were another victims of their dictatorship.

[@ianhomerpura8937]

Gen. Kuribayashi was different though. Having visited the US, he knew how much the Japanese were at a disadvantage. So he ordered that civilians in the island be evacuated.

[@CanadianAvian]

All civilians were evacuated from Iwo Jima months before the invasion, you’re talking about Okinawa.

[@simokoistinen7470]

Why they didn't took some parts from broken tanks and fix 1-3 of those broken ones. Then they could have had atleast some working tanks. (My native language isn't English.)

[@TheJabbate1]

Simo Koistinen I’m sure if they could, they would. Chances are they all have the same broken parts.

[@dustypluskrat7423]

Simo Koistinen and then they would need fuel, ammo, and a crew to operate into a battle.

[@HoLSurena]

in real life they move the tanks to the beaches and use them as small fortress, anyway Iwo Jima was not a good terrain for tanks battles

[@krieger8825]

They could have used them as cover

[@henrik3291]

Usually a tank model have several weak parts(a typical ww2 had problems with tracks, suspension, transmission) that will break first and need replacements. Probably some of these parts had been broken on all the tanks and could therefore not be intechanged. Then it is also possible that there were several different models amongst the tanks(usually you try to avoid mixing different tank models because of the issue with replacement parts).

[@tdtmtmt2842]

ken watanabe?

[@risingsun3960]

Yes

[@fubukibuki--dai-35-gokuchi45]

It’s weird to know that the pacific war would have never happened if the USA didn’t force Japan to stop being isolated and start to trade with the west

[@joeswanson733]

well for every action there are unintended unforseen consequences.

[@victornunes6047]

Yep. USA shouldn't have done that. Many things could've been avoided.

[@Anna-zr1tk]

Yes. The butterfly effect.

[@grunt117]

Dawg, that was 1854

[@tommykaung5882]

I am not sure about that alternate timeline. Even Commodore Matthew Perry and his US fleet never shows up , someone else like British Empire and the Russian would made them to open the country or even colonialized it.

[@lehoangtam93]

Hi, do you know any other movies that made on perspective of Japanese like this one ?

[@zenniz1992]

Oba: The last samurai (2011)

[@thanhnguyenhoang4398]

kupis1408

[@Beer101]

WB IsMe same actor too

[@zainabe9503]

"For Those We Love" is an amazing movie about japanese Kamikaze forces. You can watch it here, quick before it gets deleted (it certainly will, I've encountered this movie many times in KZbin being deleted): kzbin.info/www/bejne/q2e0qaqkh66gabs

[@josephalvarez9920]

'City of Life and Death' is a good one, although it takes place a few years before the US declared war on Japan and it also takes place in China but this film gives you a really good perspective from the/a Japanese during the invasion of Manchuria, I also highly recommend 'This Corner of the World' its an animated film and it gives you a very good perspective from the Japanese living in mainland Japan(specifically around Hiroshima) during the beginning, middle and end of the war.

[@Juzgames]

They had village in iwo ??

[@josephalvarez9920]

Yes, Iwo Jima was and still is considered Japan, there were also many Japanese colonies on many different islands all around the Pacific. Of course these islands were taken by American forces during and after the war and the Japanese living there(if they survived) were sent back to Japan after the war ended...

[@Anna-zr1tk]

Of course. Iwo Jima was a normal city before the Japanese military dictatorship arise. People lived there,and then their lives were destroyed by the ego of dictators.

[@grunt117]

@@josephalvarez9920 some colonies were given back

[@aa1944-k2r]

look like they are supposed to be type 95 Ha Go tanks, i think very early on in the war in asia, these tanks performed well against the biritsh...but in 1945, these are essentially paper tanks that are equipped with tiny cannon. still, with high explosive rounds they can be used as fire support in static position and hidden well, which is exactly how they were used. but to honest, from the scene here, i find it strange that the general does not know what kind of assets he had on his hands, and when he came across it and asked, he was told that these tanks are waiting for spare parts...this should be a movie thing i supposed, the moment he landed he should be briefed on everything about the island...

[@mel816]

Fun fact: almost all of LFIJ was actually filmed in Southern California

[@aryoputroadhiguno1654]

So many car but why?

[@turkey2003]

Aryoputro Adhiguno the general realized how ludicrous it was that his tanks were waiting for one month for parts when in America in one month they could build and maintain 1000s of tanks. A realisation that he cannot compete, no chance.

[@Anna-zr1tk]

Symbolic scene.

[@jarrodyuki7081]

if only japan won ww2 watch man in high castle.

[@Anna-zr1tk]

@CKS1949 He was not saying this,he was recommending a show about it.

[@rhinofire5887]

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[@rhinofire5887]

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[@MisterMander]

dont mess with the usa

[@CallsignYukiMizuki]

*Laughs in the Vietnamese temporarily stopped the fighting when the US left Vietnam*

[@bluemarshall6180]

USA Stop Messing... You Where Messing for Centuries!!!!!

[@agustinl7499]

Fugley Oh, look at me! I'm so badass 'cause I'm from USA, da best country in the wooooorld P.s: don't be a fucking idiot, have respect

[@kutzewalters5530]

+Fugley Yeah, you sure showed Vietnam. Lmao.

[@kienbon50]

Who would win? The whole United States army *A few hundred Vietnamese farmers with outdated weapons*

[@rumble2468]

America is now full of Japanese cars.

[@Aric946]

0:14 This is me I showed up