Letters from Iwo Jima

About the battle between the United States and Japan WWII, from Feb 19th 1945 to Mar 26th 1945. Decades later, letters were unearthed from the soil which surface the faces and voice of the soldiers who fought there and the man who led them.

Japanese men were called in to defend the island, leaving their kins behind. They knew deep inside it was the point of no return but General Kuribayashi's tactics lengthen the battle to around 40 days in which initially a swift capture by the Americans was expected.

Without any aid from main headquarters and fast diminishing ration, water and ammunition, death was the only final outcome.

Almost 20,000 Japanese perish in the end, throughout the movie, letters they wrote was clearly narrated that depict their daily lives on the island, battles they fought, death they seen and an impending death they couldn't control.

Saigo, a baker who wants to live on to see his new born daughter, was the one who buried General Kuribayashi, but not sure if he was alive after that as he was surrounded by American soldiers and went crazy wielding his shover against them.

The movie is abit slow and dry maybe due to how it was suppose to protray the whole meaning and story. 7/10.