I wish Hollywood would respect its audience enough to make these types of films more often. Seeing the other side of war is fundamental to fully understanding it.
It's because he went to a U.S.A. academy and know their tactics and ways. Japanese culture due to past wars especially the sengoku period made the bushido code absolute
Not really. Banzai charges served two perposes and were generally (in the later part of the war) only done for two purposes: 1) an honourable death 2) A last ditch all or nothing assault to regain lost ground when rations/ammonition were close to beeing empty. The first part never lost its purpose. It was basically ritual suicide with the goal of taking as many enemies with them as they could when there was no alternative anymore to continue fighting efficently The second part was a valid military strategy that was actually used in A LOT of militaries all around the world in WW2. If you are forced to eather usrrender or go on the last ditch offensive depending on your enemy and nationality you eather surrender or try to break out. There were alot of comparable instances on the eastern front on both the soviet and the german side of banzai style assaults. The goal simply wasnt an honorouble death but pure survival. It is a shock tactic that is designed to break the enemies line to create eather a breakthrough eather to escape or to open a front line. The way the japanease used banzai attacks initially as the usual assault was stupid though. Althoguh our image of suicide banzai charges around the clock by the japanease is very wrong. It was mainly done because, in contrast to the burma or china frontline, during the island battles the japanease military could only retreat or fall back to a degree. Evacuation was in most cases not possible so it was fighting to the death/starvation, etc. or a suicide charge. Surrender was never an option like with most militarys.
The few times I could get my dad to talk about Iwo Jima the only thing he said, Son, they let us wade in then blew us to hell and back.That's all you need to know.
brakie44820 My Great Grandfather sent letters to my great grandmother from Iwo Jima, he couldn't disclose his position so he sent the letters to "Irene Jane" and my great grandmother knew it was Iwo Jima...
My 94 year old grandfather is a third wave iwo jimma marine mortar man. Doesn’t talk much anymore but I remember when he did. They truly were the greatest generation.
My Dad’s uncle fought on Iwo Jima. He never spoke about it. He was supposed to partake in the invasion of Japan. A few weeks before they dropped the Atom Bomb he wrote a letter home stating that he wasn’t coming back. After witnessing how fiercely the Japanese fought on Iwo Jima, he knew there was no way he would live through an attack on their home islands.
@johnmann Actually..only a few thousand Marines died while the entire Japanese garrison was slaughtered. HOWEVER... The huge number of Marine wounded along with with the dead made up for the US having a high casualty rate than the Japanese... Albeit by a few thousand Margin. This also made the entire battle a controversy as Commanders reviewed the Strategic importance of the Island for such high Casualties
@@darkastrophel3640 It wasn't so much of the Japanese equipment, but more so thay Japanese soldiers were more experienced and fought better and the inexperienced US soldiers.
I really liked how they made the Americans feel "faceless." As an American, there are so many movies that paint us as the good guys in the wars we fight. In this they just look like a foreign invader, no talking, no jokes, just a foreign nation invading their territory. It truly felt like it was viewed from the Japanese side. Well done.
Yeah most soldiers didn’t even get to know and observe their enemy. They were taught that they were subhuman monsters and vicious creatures than real humans.
@@bullhead900 Some were, some weren't. Most of the soldiers on any side were neither, they were just regular humans that had both goodness and badness in them.
@@rc59191 the whole point of film was to make you see all sides as human beings, every person being stabbed, shot, set on fire, blown to hell, all of them were just like us.. people
The Japanese were up against absolutely insane odds of 100,000 marines, 500 ships and air craft yet managed to hold their own for nearly 40 days. only 200 of the 21,000 men who fought surrendered. basically 99% of that small force defended to the last man. 3 words that sum up the japanese army....TOUGH AS NAILS!
Wrestling Fan well they did have some good tactics especially when it came to defence ( iwo jima, okinawa) and they put up a hell of a fight in battles against large chinese and russian armies ( battle of wuhan, battle of khalkin gol) Banzai charges were pretty much only a last resort when the soldiers ammunition and supplies ran dry.
Wrestling Fan, The myth of poor Japanese strategy comes from, as Tony said, acts of desperation. Basically, when the Germans or the Americans ran out of ammunition and the situation was completely hopeless, they surrendered- the Japanese would charge or commit suicide. Given the isolated nature of their island defenses, this happened frequently. Unlike in films or video games, even truly bloody battles usually involve a fairly small number of actual deaths and a HUGE number of wounded and captured, the Japanese simply skewed this scale through their reluctance to surrender. When fully supplied with proper support, the Japanese were professional soldiers like any other. Observers at the time saw what they thought were irrational, foolish tactics. This is not unlike the way the myth of the soviet not even issued a rifle developed- German blitzkrieg simply smashed through Soviet liens at such an alarming rate that they quickly ran into rear-echelon soldiers who were not armed- cooks, medical personal, truck drivers ect- and it appeared that the Russians were throwing unarmed soldiers into the fray.
Tristen Noble They might not have 6 million soldiers as they used to back in WW2, however Japan does still have a formidable military, there soldiers are well trained and they have an advanced navy and a good amount of air craft. There military strength consists of about 250,000 Active personnel 57,900 reserves, 131 navy ships which include 43 destroyers, 3 air craft carriers, 17 submarines, 6 coastal defence boats, 27 mine warfare boats. Then theres it's air force which has a total of 1,590 air craft, thats 287 fighters/interceptors, 287 fixed wing attack planes, 481 transport air craft, 757 attack helicopters and 447 trainer air craft. Japan today mostly has a military that is designed for defending more then attacking. But rest assured they would give any invader a pretty hard beat down, the Japanese have never forgotten the ways of their ancestors the samurai, and i am certain they would fight just as hard as they did in WW2.
because the majority of the rest of the soldiers understood their duty when they were conscripted. the lesson in this movie is, cowards tend to survive.
I would say saving private Ryan is one of the best war movies out there. Mainly because several war veterans exited the movie after the first scene, not because it was fake, but because it was terrifyingly real
@@andmos1001 Saving private ryan is good but it’s also very much a propaganda movie about a small group of heroes defeating a much larger yet somehow stupid enemy. Fury is the same. Not bad movies but not on the level of this movie or the German movie Stalingrad. No super heroes, death comes plentiful and randomly. And btw. I was actually very surprised visiting Normandy just how different Omaha beach looked like… Private Ryan likely does the boat scenes amazingly well but Omaha looked so different
I've been to Iwo Jima...twice. Ive stood on that beach. Ive stood on the summit of Mt Suribachi. Ive crawled through the tunnels. It's by far the most powerful place I've ever been.
@@thenorthstarronin Nanjing is a myth exaggerated by the United States to justify the atomic bomb. As the same Japanese, I regret that you have been brainwashed by the propaganda. If Americans say so, why did you erase from history what American soldiers did to Japanese women during the Japanese occupation? You talk about how devilish the Japanese military experimentation was, but not about the human experimentation with indigenous peoples and people with disabilities that took place in the United States. You guys are pretending to be justice heroes, but they are actually the same demons.
@BlackDeathViral03 Or you step on a land mine, an artillery suddenly hit you, the transmission of your tank is damaged, a shell landed on your deck and ignite the ammo rack (HMS Hood).
@johnmann Correction, more Americans than Japanese were casualties. Most of the American casualties were wounded though. The number of actual KIA was 3 times higher for Japan. Naturally, since they mostly committed suicide one way or another rather than surrender.
General Kuribayashi had been in America as a military attache, so he had many American friends. And also, he had seen the industrial power of US that equivalent of Japan can't match. So he was completely against the idea of opening war with US. Considering such circumstances, it was such a tragedy that he had to kill many American people on that island😢
Dont paint the japanese leadership as a victim in the war. they could have instructed japanese soldiers to surrender. they could have assured their soldiers that the Americans would treat them fairly as prisoners(which was true). Instead the soldiers were instructed to kill at least 10 americans and fight to the death. Instructed to booby trap dead soldiers with grenades or to kill themselves rather than be captured. They were instructed to kill and target combat medics especially.
Damn. Watching this movie again years later. The same thing comes to mind. That's one hell of a fortification done by the Japanese. Doesn't surprise me at all that the conflict lasted so long.
I had the privilege to have the opportunity to walk those sands, those hills, that mountain. Best unit function I have ever been on. The most memorable one I have experienced
We should ask th responsibility for the war forever....Their decendants should also share the responsibility for the war at least! However they do as a victim of the war without any regret....It's a big problem! They do again it any time later!
I've watched documentaries where the actual Zero pilots who bombed Battleship Row were interviewed. Basically, you are looking at the person responsible for killing your Grandfather, father, etc. Thats haunting.
You see so very few narratives from the perspective of the enemy that I just loved this film. War is always perspective. And the victors write the history. Don't get me wrong. Glad we won. But I want to understand the opposing perspective. And this was just brilliant.
My mother's Cousin. Myron. Was a Rifleman with the Third Marine Division on Iwo. All that I know is that he went ashore 5 days after the battle started. Fought for 10 days. Was somewhat severely wounded. Was evacuated to Tinian or Guam. He would never talk about the battle. Except to my Father,who was an Army Veteran of the Korean War. Also an infantryman. They are both gone now. Myron in 2006 and my Dad in 2015.
jawed deljo And how does that make him a coward? He served his country and fought for democracy and justice against an oppressive fascist nation. He gave his greater allegiance to the United States.
jawed deljo Makes him even more of man in my opinion. He served the nation that put his people into internment camps because he knew that it was the right thing to do. He saw the greater evil as Japan. Btw, have you ever heard of immigration? Most Japanese immigrants came to the U.S. before the outbreak of World War 2. You know that his grandpa may have been an immigrant, so it isn't really "running" to the enemy. If he attained U.S. citizenship there is nothing wrong with him serving in their armed forces.
jawed deljo What if his country was the United States? You know that Japan doesn't allow Dual citizenship. If he came to the US and became a citizen, then the US would be his country.
My uncle was an 18 year old Marine on Iwo Jima and turned 19 before he was in the battle for Okinawa. He died in 2009 and the Marine Corps sent an honor guard to perform the military portion of his graveside ceremony. My dad was drafted into the US Army in 1944 and was in the European theatre. He always said he had it easy compared to my uncle who fought on Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
For everyone saying there is no way they could have gotten that close to the pill boxes, let me tell you firing a machine gun is a lot harder than it looks, and when you have that many charging you some are going to make it through.
Firing machine gun continuously will also affect your hearing and such. The gun barrel would overheat and tear itself without cooling it off, and the fact that your foes would most likely have other supports on their side. All of that turned into stress during combat.
There was one account from the invasion of Malaya where a Japanese soldier threw himself in front of a British pillbox and obstructed the machine gun with his corpse. That allowed his comrades to move in and throw grenades into the pillbox.
This battle always inspired me as an history geek, a tale of tragic (but nonetheless pointless) perseverance in the midst of impossible odds. A few Japanese soldiers who realized no one was going to give them support, with his comrades fighting elsewhere or returning to make a last stand for their nation and the once-powerful Navy left in pitiful shambles after many errors and defeats .vs. hundreds of Marines with better equipment and almost unlimited supplies, Carriers and Cruisers with enough power to sink an island, and total air superiority. And yet, the Japanese managed to hold them back for 40 DAYS, alone and with no backup except for the Emperor's platitudes.
Most of the time it’s because the Japanese fought to the end instead of surrendering. The Americans usually had a high number of wounded and missing troops but low KIA because they had medical ships and infrastructure to help their wounded while Japanese garrisons were isolated after the Japanese navy was destroyed earlier in the war. It evens out more if you take that factor into consideration
@@boobtoob2507 Correct. If I remember correctly, the allies wore down the fortress islands and then attacked with strength and firepower against the depleted IJA.
@@boobtoob2507 also when 500 Japanese troops attacked 7000 chinese garrison and killed 500 chinese while 2 Japanese soldiers were lost And occupied manchuria
@@ericvonmanstein2112 yep people forget the Japanese army, when properly supplied and equipped, steamrolled British and American forces in the phillipines, Dutch East Indies, and Hong Kong while being vastly outnumbered.
Kuribayashi Topgun Japanese general. Honourable and intelligent. Ate with his troops. Evacuated civilians. Incredible fighting force vastly outnumbered. 99% died- 21,000 dead and held on for 40 days. Astonishing. German army #1 Japanese army #2 ❤️ 🇯🇵
An island of only 20 square kilometers. In this battle, the Americans suffered more damage than the Japanese. Japan was gathering troops on the mainland. 5 million, 12,000 aircraft. Thousands of fortresses. But it ended with an atomic bomb.
@@Reupload-Kanal-Von-Lukas-Heil I have been to Japan and i saw what the land is like.The territory is rugged;few plain places for agriculture, that's why big movements like the allies did in France or the Russians in their land were not possible.Only one place allowed big manoeuvers:Kantou.
@LOL A huge military invasion will be extremely brutal with probably millions of deaths. But dropping 2 bombs on civilian cities was an obvious war crime. But its not because the victors did it. But they should have just blockaded Japan and pressured it into surrendering eventually. Japan was an island, their navy was more or less destroyed, their economy in tatters. They were going nowhere, they couldnt have sustain very long. The bombs were huge atrocities. The excuse that the atoms were to save more lives is bullsht. The Allies were in a rush to end the war because they were in a race with each other, between Soviet and the West.
Just watched this last night. Interesting seeing things from a different perspective. You picture the Japanese as a bunch of fanatical soldiers who would fight to the death, etc. But not all were like that. Just trying to do their jobs and get home.
Fun fact: Clint Eastwood filmed this and Flags of Our Fathers back to back. They were released a few months apart. Honestly, I feel bad for the soldiers manning the anti-tank cannons. They're loaded with HE but still, one or two shots and you're position is given away and the battleships and cruisers are honed in on your position and you're fucked. It was basically suicide to be one of its crew.
In the book, Gen Kuribayashi had a dream, during the final days of the defence of Iwo Jima. He dreamt of his beloved 10-yr old daughter as a toddler, and in another, she was an adult. He wrote these in his letters.
I like how it used the same color system to desaturate the war footage as Band Of Brothers did intil the war was over in this film . The film was not a tourism promo for holidays in the tropics with blue skys and nice beach fronts. Plenty of war footage was released in B&W while Hitlers films had many in color but we saw in B&W for that gray macabre theme to keep the focus on the oppression and death .
I remember watching a history doc and one of the marines that landed on Iwo Jima said how he had no fear of dying and going to hell because he has already been there.
Isnt it crazy that not even 20 years ago one of the most patriotic actors of the USA could make a balanced and accurate depiction of a history about THE ENEMY. Whereas nowaday we can't even get the simplest historical facts in movies anymore without the content having been politicised and falsified. It's a sad development really.
Eastwood knew the best way to honour the Americans who died fighting on Iwo Jima was to tell the truth. Somehow today, people prefer to think of the enemy as a bunch of incompetent buffoons but if that was true, then logically the Allies were a bunch of clowns for taking as long as they did to defeat them.
Of all Japanese in ww2, i admire General Kuribayashi the most. Even though they lost iwo jima after a few weeks of bloody battle, Kuribayashi gave the americans a bloody nose and made their victory so costly.
You say that like it's a bad thing, our nation thrives due to this partnership... Except for all the modern anti-social, hentai loving tentacles crap. Other than that, the U.S. saved us from the Soviets and industrialized the nation from ground zero.
Nonsense. You needed oil. Neither Japan nor China had oil. What precipitated the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour was the fact their oil dealer stopped selling it to them. It was the USA. The only "Asian" country that could have countered the USA (and its oil and uranium-rich ally, Canada) would have been the USSR, but they were too busy with Germany at the time. This is because the USSR had oil. And after WWII was over, this is exactly what we saw.
So much suffering in this war were happend...... One day i will visit Iwo Jima and salute for our fallen allies (the japanese) and for the fallen U.S Troops! They shaped our world like no other generation I'm a 15 years old german teenager and have massive respect for all people who fought for their country! Mögen sie in Frieden ruhen (Rest in Peace)
i love movies like this because there is always to faces to war the Japanese soldiers were just like the american soldiers doing their job fighting for their country they wanted to go back home they also had pictures of their wives, sons, mothers ect.. on their wallets just like the americans same goes for the regular german soldiers don't forget the victors dictate how history is gonna be told and usually that means demonizing the enemy.
SanDisk4GB4 Yeah, but they were ordered to do so. Also, they were taught that we'd rape their asses if they didn't rape ours. Considering at the time, anyone would believe anything, I would've done that as well.
Gabriele Genota Excuse me, "Rape ours"? Americans didn't get raped, the chinese did. Japan isnt blamed for their war crimes and cruelty because of what they did against U.S soldiers, no, they are blamed for the massacre of the chinese population. When they "raped" anyone's asses it was not methaphorically, they literally raped and murdered most of the chinese women of the captured cities, so think twice before saying that you would do the same.
It shows empathy and historical research, an American made film but grounded in the Japanese perspective. I think it’s important to tell history from many points of view.
I just feel like there are too many of those American war hero movies, not that they are all bad, just would like to see more movies from the Axis perspective
@@andrewwestman2407 Thanks.When the campaign to free the Phillippines started, the Japanese used the same tactic:To yield the yard.Just because it was the Army , it didn't get the highlights Marines always did.
@@anibalcesarnishizk2205 The same thing happened on Guadalcanal, although that was because the Marines landed much earlier than the Japanese thought they would.
I dont know whats worse in this scenario, watching the marines land knowing your fate, or being a marine landing on the beach not knowing the hell that is about to be unleashed on you.
My grad father was one of those men who stormed the beach. I’m in my late 20s now and can’t imagine the courage it must have taking. Sadly he passed away from cancer in 2010. He didn’t tell me much since I was young at the time but I wish we could have been old enough to ask legitimate questions for future generations: his metals he earned already speak volumes and from what my uncles told me i understand and glad I didn’t ask further. Even after 60 years those memories still hurt:
He was still had a good sense of humor but just like my uncles from Vietnam never brought it up. He was on iwo , tinian and Saipan. All of them when he was 17- 19
Respect to him for his courage, no matter his ideals, he was willing to put his life on the line fir what he believed in. Shame he didn't wanna tell you more, one day veterans of his generations will be gone and we will have to keep their memories alive.
This is a great feat for Eastwood to make the same movie but from two different perspectives. Deserves more credit. Also it’s strange to watch this and the pacific then watch my hero academia. How times change because of war.
Here's how historian Francis Pike described the landing at Iwo Jima: Advancing toward Chidori Airport, the leading Marines were suddenly cut down by concealed underground positions. Kuribayashi's death machine roared into action. It turned into a battle like no other in World War II. Japan's defenders had the advantage over attackers. Mobility, which characterized the advantage usually afforded the attacker in this era, was entirely nullified in a fight that had to be won hole by hole, pillbox by pillbox, and cave by cave. By the end of the first day of fighting, 600 Americans lay dead and a further 2,000 more had been wounded. Unusually, some of the highest casualties were engineers of the 133rd Seabees. The western beaches were strewn with wrecked machines, body parts, and mangled bodies. At 5.00 pm, a sickened Keith Wheeler told Robert Sherrod of Life magazine, "There's more hell in there than I've seen in the rest of the war put together."
Well, Among the Japanese tank commanders they believe that by yelling ''HU-TE'' to order his crew firing the gun, it gives the shell +10% Velocity, +10% accuracy and +20% splash damage ...
I love both films a very good way of showing us what it was like preparing for the upcoming conflict that going to start and that it showed us how nervous both sides were when they were to meet their enemy on the battlefield I would put racism aside the Japanese had only 12,000 troops not even enough to delay a naval force that size from overtaking Iwo Jima and the general knew with only 12,000 troops won't be able to hold out against the Americans within a month when he requested renforcements from the mainland and they told him that they can no longer provide any troops to sent to aid Iwo Jima in they had no more navy left to send to provide support and so he was left on his own to delay the Americans advance and hoping to prevent them from using their airfield to deploy new long range bombers to strike the heart of Japan itself
Japan at the time was under the control of one of the most brutal regimes in the world, but I've always respected their soldiers in the conventional fight, incredibly tenacious.
The tactics were pretty terrible. Japan wasted countless thousands of soldiers in pointless Banzai charges and that were more about bravado than anything else. Even when all hope is lost pockets of rifle armed men can hold an enemy up longer than a thousand men charging into a wall of machine gun fire and dying in a matter of minutes. They were also terrible at adapting their tactics. If a thousand men attack the West side of a hill and get slaughtered, did they try attacking the East side instead? Nope. Just keep sending a thousand men at a time up the West side till you run out of men.
@@goatwarrior3570 They only used banzai charges as a last resort, when all other options were depleted. They believed it was better to die fighting than surrender to the enemy. Surrender is considered extremely dishonourable in Japanese culture.
One of the things I liked the most about this movie other than actually showing the Axis powers (Japan in this case) in a fair note is that they also showed how Japan didn't understand combined arms which lead to in fighting between the Army and Navy.
I was 6 years old when i boarded a C-130 at Yokota Air Base outside of Tokyo and flew to a small island named Iwo Jima. Then as a grown adult i saw the movie and my memories came flooding back... I was there, on that island 41 years after the battle... And in my minds eye saw it all....
Around 140k-150k participants in this 5 week battle. Some 110k US troops, and some 20k-22k Imperial Japanese. They waited a little over an hour after the initial landings to open fire. The initial ratio was 3 Americans per 2 Japanese. An utterly useless piece of land that was not even used. A little perspective, the combined allied landing of Normandy had around 10k casualties. Iwo Jima, almost 20k (granted, the entire 5 weeks). The Pacific was a monster, but not nearly as bad as the USSR and Third Reich front. Battle of Rhzev (a series of offensives), over 5 million participants. Of which, 2-3 million casualties (killed, wounded, sick, and missing). Where “the meat grinder” comes from.
@@arcanusluvalus1388 Yes i hope they Contiune like this i am Hyped for Wake Island and i hope the Eastern front is coming to the game that would be Awsome and of course D-Day Please Sorry for my englisch i'm from Germany
2:37 I feel sorry for that guy. That is ALWAYS me. No matter what video game it is that involves warfare. Just minding my own damn business whenever a rocket, grenade, mortar, tank shell, bomb, Insert any other bs explosive lands right next to me. That being said. I preferred letters from iwo jima over flags of our fathers tbh.
Iwo Jima and Okinawa shattered US strategists' hopes for a conventional defeat of Japan. If you respect the Japanese's fighting will and skill on Iwo Jima like I do, then I expect you to respect the US decision to nuke Japan instead of carrying out a land invasion in Operation Downfall.
@@TheMilito1 the dirty bombs were more ethical than an invasion of Japan and you’re crazy if you think otherwise. Look at how many Chinese civilians were killed by the Japanese. Millions.
we asian's had a knack to fight till death entering the 20th century, so yeah I agree with that view *Edit - not that any war and killing is just.... but the point of that historic moment and tragedy is, sometimes, you had to bash ppl really hard before they rlly sober up. That's the point of the 2 bombs
I think what makes war so incomprehensibly horrifying to those who haven't experienced it, is partly the sheer monotony for long periods of time, followed by the sudden plunge into a luck-based frantic survival situation. You spend weeks, months even, squabbling over shit buckets and trying to keep your feet from rotting off in a dark little hole, and instantly one day the world begins exploding, people you've come to know as you've sat and waited and performed your routine duties are utterly butchered around you, and each second you're convinced you'll hear that one last microsecond-long whizzing sound before the lights go out. Mind-numbing, torturous boredom, punctuated with true understanding of how much deeper the well of human hatred is than you ever thought possible.
Yamamoto knew it would be a loss as soon as the Pearl Harbour attack failed. As he and the Naval command knew, they did not sinknany aircraft carriers so it was a failure. The age of the Battleship was over sinking Arizona etc, was nearly pointless..
I wish Hollywood would respect its audience enough to make these types of films more often. Seeing the other side of war is fundamental to fully understanding it.
I want to se a film from the Wehrmacht's perspective
@@marseldagistani1989 people would call us Nazis but I would actually be really interested in that film
You need to know both sides of war to respect what the soldiers did and also to never repeat war in the same way again
@@marseldagistani1989 there’s a series on CZcams called dusty faces, its superb
@@natealvarez9979 people would call us Nazis if we show the SS and the death camps
One of the best Japanese generals. He opposed banzai charges and considered them to be stupid.
He was right.
It was suicide. He knew each man could’ve been utilized better than an ancient ritualistic suicide attack.
It's because he went to a U.S.A. academy and know their tactics and ways. Japanese culture due to past wars especially the sengoku period made the bushido code absolute
Not really. Banzai charges served two perposes and were generally (in the later part of the war) only done for two purposes: 1) an honourable death 2) A last ditch all or nothing assault to regain lost ground when rations/ammonition were close to beeing empty.
The first part never lost its purpose. It was basically ritual suicide with the goal of taking as many enemies with them as they could when there was no alternative anymore to continue fighting efficently
The second part was a valid military strategy that was actually used in A LOT of militaries all around the world in WW2. If you are forced to eather usrrender or go on the last ditch offensive depending on your enemy and nationality you eather surrender or try to break out. There were alot of comparable instances on the eastern front on both the soviet and the german side of banzai style assaults. The goal simply wasnt an honorouble death but pure survival. It is a shock tactic that is designed to break the enemies line to create eather a breakthrough eather to escape or to open a front line.
The way the japanease used banzai attacks initially as the usual assault was stupid though. Althoguh our image of suicide banzai charges around the clock by the japanease is very wrong. It was mainly done because, in contrast to the burma or china frontline, during the island battles the japanease military could only retreat or fall back to a degree. Evacuation was in most cases not possible so it was fighting to the death/starvation, etc. or a suicide charge. Surrender was never an option like with most militarys.
@@noobster4779 I will place my confidence and trust in the mind of that Japanese general than some pseudo historian.
The few times I could get my dad to talk about Iwo Jima the only thing he said, Son, they let us wade in then blew us to hell and back.That's all you need to know.
What unit? If you don't mind me asking.
brakie44820 My Great Grandfather sent letters to my great grandmother from Iwo Jima, he couldn't disclose his position so he sent the letters to "Irene Jane" and my great grandmother knew it was Iwo Jima...
My 94 year old grandfather is a third wave iwo jimma marine mortar man. Doesn’t talk much anymore but I remember when he did. They truly were the greatest generation.
brakie44820 this man I knew that passed away wrote me a letter about his experience there he got shot in the back
My Dad’s uncle fought on Iwo Jima. He never spoke about it. He was supposed to partake in the invasion of Japan. A few weeks before they dropped the Atom Bomb he wrote a letter home stating that he wasn’t coming back. After witnessing how fiercely the Japanese fought on Iwo Jima, he knew there was no way he would live through an attack on their home islands.
This movie and "Downfall" were the finest war movies I've ever seen. Clint Eastwood is a genius with his direction.
Could you tell me the tittle of this movie?
@@javierdarmadi2086 "Letters from Iwo Jima"
Generation war?
Don’t forget about Saving Private Ryan has a splendid direction and performances and shows the war very dark and realistic.
Wtf? You forgot saving private ryan, we were soldiers, hamburger Hill, enemy's at the gate?, you joking dude.
Mad props to Clint Eastwood for wanting to tell a balanced view of the battle.
@johnmann Actually..only a few thousand Marines died while the entire Japanese garrison was slaughtered. HOWEVER... The huge number of Marine wounded along with with the dead made up for the US having a high casualty rate than the Japanese... Albeit by a few thousand Margin. This also made the entire battle a controversy as Commanders reviewed the Strategic importance of the Island for such high Casualties
Johnman false. We had more casualties. As far as deaths per capita in a war of attrition. Iwo jima suffered more losses on the Japanese side.
@@darkastrophel3640 It wasn't so much of the Japanese equipment, but more so thay Japanese soldiers were more experienced and fought better and the inexperienced US soldiers.
@@andrewelam1728 Exactly. Right you are. I know that.
Its funny, he arguably made a much better movie for the Japanese side too
I really liked how they made the Americans feel "faceless." As an American, there are so many movies that paint us as the good guys in the wars we fight. In this they just look like a foreign invader, no talking, no jokes, just a foreign nation invading their territory. It truly felt like it was viewed from the Japanese side. Well done.
Yeah most soldiers didn’t even get to know and observe their enemy. They were taught that they were subhuman monsters and vicious creatures than real humans.
War is hell.
Ikr
We were the good guys.
@@bullhead900 Some were, some weren't. Most of the soldiers on any side were neither, they were just regular humans that had both goodness and badness in them.
Gotta love Clint Eastwood. When he wants to accurately portray history, he accurately portrays history.
American Sniper could of been better but Flags of Our Fathers, Letters From Iwo Jima, Heartbreak Ridge, The Mule, all amazing movies.
@@rc59191 the whole point of film was to make you see all sides as human beings, every person being stabbed, shot, set on fire, blown to hell, all of them were just like us.. people
@@Chuked I never said it wasn't.
@@rc59191 American sniper was filled with bs
@@marcusaurelius3487 Agreed. So was Heartbreak Ridge.
So...this is the Japanese view of "Flags of our Fathers?" GREAT!
Aye!
Yeah. Clint Eastwood directed both and LFIJ was shot as soon as production for FOOF ended. Great director and I think this is his most beautiful film
What does FOOF mean(googled it didn't find answers:(
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saving private ryan was normandy beach not in the pacific
Just can't fathom how they fought in war with German AND English subtitles getting in the way
Those were confusing times.
@@goatwarrior3570 hello
This is a movie. in real life there obviously weren't subtitles floating in the air
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The Japanese were up against absolutely insane odds of 100,000 marines, 500 ships and air craft yet managed to hold their own for nearly 40 days. only 200 of the 21,000 men who fought surrendered. basically 99% of that small force defended to the last man. 3 words that sum up the japanese army....TOUGH AS NAILS!
Bullet-Tooth Tony They are pretty damn tough. Shame that poor tactics and weapons make them look like suicidal maniacs more than soldiers.
Wrestling Fan well they did have some good tactics especially when it came to defence ( iwo jima, okinawa) and they put up a hell of a fight in battles against large chinese and russian armies ( battle of wuhan, battle of khalkin gol) Banzai charges were pretty much only a last resort when the soldiers ammunition and supplies ran dry.
Wrestling Fan, The myth of poor Japanese strategy comes from, as Tony said, acts of desperation. Basically, when the Germans or the Americans ran out of ammunition and the situation was completely hopeless, they surrendered- the Japanese would charge or commit suicide. Given the isolated nature of their island defenses, this happened frequently. Unlike in films or video games, even truly bloody battles usually involve a fairly small number of actual deaths and a HUGE number of wounded and captured, the Japanese simply skewed this scale through their reluctance to surrender. When fully supplied with proper support, the Japanese were professional soldiers like any other. Observers at the time saw what they thought were irrational, foolish tactics.
This is not unlike the way the myth of the soviet not even issued a rifle developed- German blitzkrieg simply smashed through Soviet liens at such an alarming rate that they quickly ran into rear-echelon soldiers who were not armed- cooks, medical personal, truck drivers ect- and it appeared that the Russians were throwing unarmed soldiers into the fray.
Tristen Noble They might not have 6 million soldiers as they used to back in WW2, however Japan does still have a formidable military, there soldiers are well trained and they have an advanced navy and a good amount of air craft.
There military strength consists of about 250,000 Active personnel 57,900 reserves, 131 navy ships which include 43 destroyers, 3 air craft carriers, 17 submarines, 6 coastal defence boats, 27 mine warfare boats. Then theres it's air force which has a total of 1,590 air craft, thats 287 fighters/interceptors, 287 fixed wing attack planes, 481 transport air craft, 757 attack helicopters and 447 trainer air craft. Japan today mostly has a military that is designed for defending more then attacking.
But rest assured they would give any invader a pretty hard beat down, the Japanese have never forgotten the ways of their ancestors the samurai, and i am certain they would fight just as hard as they did in WW2.
Bullet-Tooth Tony more like deluded fanatics
General Kuribayashi: "Dont kill yourselves"
The rest of the army: *no*
How 'bout I do *anyway* ?
What movie is this from?
@@drakZes "Letters from Iwo Jima"
because the majority of the rest of the soldiers understood their duty when they were conscripted. the lesson in this movie is, cowards tend to survive.
@@ianswift3521 “The paths of glory lead but to the grave”
"I don't know who he is, but the Japanese General running this show is one smart bastard."
- U.S. Marine General Holland Smith
Flag of our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima are one of the best war movies. Its sad that there are no movies like this today.
I would say saving private Ryan is one of the best war movies out there. Mainly because several war veterans exited the movie after the first scene, not because it was fake, but because it was terrifyingly real
Iwo Jima is solid. Flags gets far too involved with nonsense and gets boring. The characters are also not as likable.
Try: Die Brücke (1953), Stalingrad (1993) and Das Boot.
@@andmos1001 Saving private ryan is good but it’s also very much a propaganda movie about a small group of heroes defeating a much larger yet somehow stupid enemy.
Fury is the same.
Not bad movies but not on the level of this movie or the German movie Stalingrad. No super heroes, death comes plentiful and randomly.
And btw. I was actually very surprised visiting Normandy just how different Omaha beach looked like… Private Ryan likely does the boat scenes amazingly well but Omaha looked so different
what do you mean, they made Hacksaw Ridge a few years before you made that comment
I've been to Iwo Jima...twice. Ive stood on that beach. Ive stood on the summit of Mt Suribachi. Ive crawled through the tunnels. It's by far the most powerful place I've ever been.
"always do what is right.. because it is right" such a underrated movie. As an American I'm glad we are good friends with Japan now.
This is what happens when people in command make violent decisions. Imagine if everybody was good friends 😔
You people were good friends with them pre 1940. Roosevelt threw that away to support Western colonialism.
They don't treat us well over in Japan. Can't really blame them either.
Japan have never apologised for all the heinous war crimes, they deserve nothing
@@jayden6047America never apologized for its war crimes either.
この戦いで国のために死んでいった日本兵とアメリカ兵の方々に…敬礼！🎌🇺🇸
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As an American with family members that fought in the pacific, I have to say I have a great amount of respect for the tenacity of the Japanese.
As a Japanese I really respect that
I thought most people don’t have respect for the Japanese because of Nanking even though not all Japanese are evil
@@thenorthstarronin true but Nanking tho is just messed up
@@robertevbayekha6639 pretty much
@@thenorthstarronin Nanjing is a myth exaggerated by the United States to justify the atomic bomb. As the same Japanese, I regret that you have been brainwashed by the propaganda.
If Americans say so, why did you erase from history what American soldiers did to Japanese women during the Japanese occupation?
You talk about how devilish the Japanese military experimentation was, but not about the human experimentation with indigenous peoples and people with disabilities that took place in the United States.
You guys are pretending to be justice heroes, but they are actually the same demons.
@@thenorthstarronin 同じ日本人として恥でしかないですわ。
Imagine being the first men on the beach just a coin flip if you lived or died.
@Robs most likely most of the first marines were KIA or wounded.
@BlackDeathViral03 Or you step on a land mine, an artillery suddenly hit you, the transmission of your tank is damaged, a shell landed on your deck and ignite the ammo rack (HMS Hood).
John Basilone died there.
@johnmann Correction, more Americans than Japanese were casualties. Most of the American casualties were wounded though. The number of actual KIA was 3 times higher for Japan. Naturally, since they mostly committed suicide one way or another rather than surrender.
@johnmann Wikipedia lists 6821 US troops killed and 17,845-18,375 for IJA.
General Kuribayashi had been in America as a military attache, so he had many American friends. And also, he had seen the industrial power of US that equivalent of Japan can't match. So he was completely against the idea of opening war with US.
Considering such circumstances, it was such a tragedy that he had to kill many American people on that island😢
Dont paint the japanese leadership as a victim in the war. they could have instructed japanese soldiers to surrender. they could have assured their soldiers that the Americans would treat them fairly as prisoners(which was true). Instead the soldiers were instructed to kill at least 10 americans and fight to the death. Instructed to booby trap dead soldiers with grenades or to kill themselves rather than be captured. They were instructed to kill and target combat medics especially.
Damn. Watching this movie again years later. The same thing comes to mind. That's one hell of a fortification done by the Japanese. Doesn't surprise me at all that the conflict lasted so long.
I love hearing Baron Nishi yell "Ute!"
It actually means strike (not fire)...
UTE can mean both strike and fire. Its the difference between 撃てand 討て. In this situation fire
Nah, it's what Aussies call pick-ups.
撃て(ute)
I had the privilege to have the opportunity to walk those sands, those hills, that mountain. Best unit function I have ever been on. The most memorable one I have experienced
I love WW2 films with a look from the other side ,not just the allies .
こんな事がたった約70年前実際にあったなんて、信じられない…
We should ask th responsibility for the war forever....Their decendants should also share the responsibility for the war at least! However they do as a victim of the war without any regret....It's a big problem! They do again it any time later!
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@@david-qx2qz mate, then every person on this planet has to share that responsibility then.
@@homelesslukeskywalker7277 right!
@@david-qx2qz ok let me know what you did for your responsibility.
Among the finest movies ever made. My uncle was in the USN in those transport boats. He told me they were sitting ducks while off-loading the Marines.
I've watched documentaries where the actual Zero pilots who bombed Battleship Row were interviewed. Basically, you are looking at the person responsible for killing your Grandfather, father, etc. Thats haunting.
good war movie....
I thought theyd show authentic actual letters from marines landing on iwo jima dammit.
So do you wanna be called Yankee?
Great movie, well done Eastwood
harri hiltunen
You love
You see so very few narratives from the perspective of the enemy that I just loved this film. War is always perspective. And the victors write the history. Don't get me wrong. Glad we won. But I want to understand the opposing perspective. And this was just brilliant.
My mother's Cousin. Myron. Was a Rifleman with the Third Marine Division on Iwo. All that I know is that he went ashore 5 days after the battle started. Fought for 10 days. Was somewhat severely wounded. Was evacuated to Tinian or Guam. He would never talk about the battle. Except to my Father,who was an Army Veteran of the Korean War. Also an infantryman. They are both gone now. Myron in 2006 and my Dad in 2015.
Even though I'm Japanese my Great great great grandfather fought in Iwo Jima as a USMC flamethrower
jawed deljo The fuck is your problem? I never said I was willingly able to betray my people.
jawed deljo And how does that make him a coward? He served his country and fought for democracy and justice against an oppressive fascist nation. He gave his greater allegiance to the United States.
jawed deljo Makes him even more of man in my opinion. He served the nation that put his people into internment camps because he knew that it was the right thing to do. He saw the greater evil as Japan. Btw, have you ever heard of immigration? Most Japanese immigrants came to the U.S. before the outbreak of World War 2. You know that his grandpa may have been an immigrant, so it isn't really "running" to the enemy. If he attained U.S. citizenship there is nothing wrong with him serving in their armed forces.
He must have been part of the one of the Japanese units then, they were tough fighters.
jawed deljo What if his country was the United States? You know that Japan doesn't allow Dual citizenship. If he came to the US and became a citizen, then the US would be his country.
"Forward he cried, from the rear! And the front ranks diiiiieeeeedd!" Pink Floyd's Us and Them
Didn't all the IJA die here, officers and all?
+Admiral Beez most of them yes
Are you thinking of "When the Tigers Broke Free" instead of "Us and Them"?
No he got it right : )
After all, we're only ordinary men.
My uncle was an 18 year old Marine on Iwo Jima and turned 19 before he was in the battle for Okinawa. He died in 2009 and the Marine Corps sent an honor guard to perform the military portion of his graveside ceremony. My dad was drafted into the US Army in 1944 and was in the European theatre. He always said he had it easy compared to my uncle who fought on Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
For everyone saying there is no way they could have gotten that close to the pill boxes, let me tell you firing a machine gun is a lot harder than it looks, and when you have that many charging you some are going to make it through.
yeap, it's take a couple seconds before you need to reload and reloading can take longer than shooting.
Firing machine gun continuously will also affect your hearing and such. The gun barrel would overheat and tear itself without cooling it off, and the fact that your foes would most likely have other supports on their side. All of that turned into stress during combat.
There was one account from the invasion of Malaya where a Japanese soldier threw himself in front of a British pillbox and obstructed the machine gun with his corpse. That allowed his comrades to move in and throw grenades into the pillbox.
My uncle Francis was in one of the boats unloading the marines...this movie (one of THE best films of WW2 ever made) really brings that home to me.
This battle always inspired me as an history geek, a tale of tragic (but nonetheless pointless) perseverance in the midst of impossible odds.
A few Japanese soldiers who realized no one was going to give them support, with his comrades fighting elsewhere or returning to make a last stand for their nation and the once-powerful Navy left in pitiful shambles after many errors and defeats .vs. hundreds of Marines with better equipment and almost unlimited supplies, Carriers and Cruisers with enough power to sink an island, and total air superiority. And yet, the Japanese managed to hold them back for 40 DAYS, alone and with no backup except for the Emperor's platitudes.
Fun Fact: this battle is the only battle between Japan and US where US casualties exceeded Japanese casualities
Most of the time it’s because the Japanese fought to the end instead of surrendering. The Americans usually had a high number of wounded and missing troops but low KIA because they had medical ships and infrastructure to help their wounded while Japanese garrisons were isolated after the Japanese navy was destroyed earlier in the war. It evens out more if you take that factor into consideration
@@boobtoob2507 Correct. If I remember correctly, the allies wore down the fortress islands and then attacked with strength and firepower against the depleted IJA.
@@boobtoob2507 also Singapore when 3 times smaller Japanese Army crushed British singapore the so called maginot line of Asia
@@boobtoob2507 also when 500 Japanese troops attacked 7000 chinese garrison and killed 500 chinese while 2 Japanese soldiers were lost
And occupied manchuria
@@ericvonmanstein2112 yep people forget the Japanese army, when properly supplied and equipped, steamrolled British and American forces in the phillipines, Dutch East Indies, and Hong Kong while being vastly outnumbered.
Kuribayashi Topgun Japanese general. Honourable and intelligent. Ate with his troops. Evacuated civilians. Incredible fighting force vastly outnumbered. 99% died- 21,000 dead and held on for 40 days. Astonishing.
German army #1
Japanese army #2
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Is that Japanese general the guy from the last samurai film?
yep
Thanks, he's a good actor
He on the new Godzilla film as well
Ken Watanabe is the actor.
Minhaj Nizam The one coming out in 2018.
An island of only 20 square kilometers. In this battle, the Americans suffered more damage than the Japanese. Japan was gathering troops on the mainland. 5 million, 12,000 aircraft. Thousands of fortresses. But it ended with an atomic bomb.
2 atomic bombs*
Japan was too small for great movements and too big to be taken in a few days.
@@anibalcesarnishizk2205 what do you exactly mean with great movements ? Can you explain?
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I have been to Japan and i saw what the land is like.The territory is rugged;few plain places for agriculture, that's why big movements like the allies did in France or the Russians in their land were not possible.Only one place allowed big manoeuvers:Kantou.
@LOL A huge military invasion will be extremely brutal with probably millions of deaths. But dropping 2 bombs on civilian cities was an obvious war crime. But its not because the victors did it.
But they should have just blockaded Japan and pressured it into surrendering eventually. Japan was an island, their navy was more or less destroyed, their economy in tatters. They were going nowhere, they couldnt have sustain very long.
The bombs were huge atrocities. The excuse that the atoms were to save more lives is bullsht. The Allies were in a rush to end the war because they were in a race with each other, between Soviet and the West.
Just watched this last night. Interesting seeing things from a different perspective. You picture the Japanese as a bunch of fanatical soldiers who would fight to the death, etc. But not all were like that. Just trying to do their jobs and get home.
wow that Nerf rocket was deadly
Lmao
Whats more is they actually existed. The Type-98 320mm mortar carried a 660lb warhead that would leave 8ft deep craters wherever they hit.
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And those that got slammed vanished into thin air.
😂😂😂
Fun fact: Clint Eastwood filmed this and Flags of Our Fathers back to back. They were released a few months apart.
Honestly, I feel bad for the soldiers manning the anti-tank cannons. They're loaded with HE but still, one or two shots and you're position is given away and the battleships and cruisers are honed in on your position and you're fucked. It was basically suicide to be one of its crew.
In the book, Gen Kuribayashi had a dream, during the final days of the defence of Iwo Jima. He dreamt of his beloved 10-yr old daughter as a toddler, and in another, she was an adult. He wrote these in his letters.
I saw this beautiful movie when it first released in the cinema in 2006 with my dad. It's stuck with me ever since. Once the best movies ever 💔😢
This film is a masterpiece. Just as good as ANY war film ever made.
I like how it used the same color system to desaturate the war footage as Band Of Brothers did intil the war was over in this film . The film was not a tourism promo for holidays in the tropics with blue skys and nice beach fronts. Plenty of war footage was released in B&W while Hitlers films had many in color but we saw in B&W for that gray macabre theme to keep the focus on the oppression and death .
I remember watching a history doc and one of the marines that landed on Iwo Jima said how he had no fear of dying and going to hell because he has already been there.
Isnt it crazy that not even 20 years ago one of the most patriotic actors of the USA could make a balanced and accurate depiction of a history about THE ENEMY. Whereas nowaday we can't even get the simplest historical facts in movies anymore without the content having been politicised and falsified. It's a sad development really.
Eastwood knew the best way to honour the Americans who died fighting on Iwo Jima was to tell the truth.
Somehow today, people prefer to think of the enemy as a bunch of incompetent buffoons but if that was true, then logically the Allies were a bunch of clowns for taking as long as they did to defeat them.
can you feel how armies enjoys those movies . 💛 with peace in their heart. as some nightmares are just justifable virtually.
Of all Japanese in ww2, i admire General Kuribayashi the most. Even though they lost iwo jima after a few weeks of bloody battle, Kuribayashi gave the americans a bloody nose and made their victory so costly.
War is horrible but sometimes necessary. But thank God Japan and the US are great allies today.
Kevin Kent ikr
The Japanese had no say in that partnership.
You say that like it's a bad thing, our nation thrives due to this partnership... Except for all the modern anti-social, hentai loving tentacles crap. Other than that, the U.S. saved us from the Soviets and industrialized the nation from ground zero.
Nah, like another countries member of NATO, Japan is a conquered nation.
Its a farce
俺は中国人なんだけど、第二次世界大戦中、米国と互角に渡り合えるアジアの国はおそらく日本だけだっただろ、普通にすごいなと思う
Nonsense.
You needed oil. Neither Japan nor China had oil. What precipitated the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour was the fact their oil dealer stopped selling it to them. It was the USA.
The only "Asian" country that could have countered the USA (and its oil and uranium-rich ally, Canada) would have been the USSR, but they were too busy with Germany at the time. This is because the USSR had oil. And after WWII was over, this is exactly what we saw.
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I agree 100 percent, can u translate the comment that u replied to?
すごくても、誇りに思っても。
戦争がいいとは絶対思わない。皮肉すぎるだろ…人殺して人間として誇りだなんて…戦争なんて辞めちまえ。
中国父さんアメリカから覇権をもぎ取るの頑張って
正直言って''互角''ではなかったと思う
栗林、
彼は最高指揮官でありながら兵と同じ食事を取りました。
島民も事前疎開させ、島民に死者は出ませんでした。
彼は知米派でアメリカのことを良く知る数少ない陸軍将校の1人でもあり、この闘いが負けることになるのを最初から知っていましたが彼は軍人として最後は先頭に立ち討ち死にしました。
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He died a true warrior's death
So much suffering in this war were happend......
One day i will visit Iwo Jima and salute for our fallen allies (the japanese) and for the fallen U.S Troops!
They shaped our world like no other generation
I'm a 15 years old german teenager and have massive respect for all people who fought for their country!
Mögen sie in Frieden ruhen (Rest in Peace)
i love movies like this because there is always to faces to war the Japanese soldiers were just like the american soldiers doing their job fighting for their country they wanted to go back home they also had pictures of their wives, sons, mothers ect.. on their wallets just like the americans same goes for the regular german soldiers don't forget the victors dictate how history is gonna be told and usually that means demonizing the enemy.
SanDisk4GB4 and you know this because you were there right?
Bullshnaga Nims i studied history and disallow the current beautiful japanese culture to blind me like the fucking weebshit you are.
SanDisk4GB4 Ok keyboard warrior. leave it to a youtube troll to get all upset with somebody else's comments. You have a lovely day sir.
SanDisk4GB4 Yeah, but they were ordered to do so. Also, they were taught that we'd rape their asses if they didn't rape ours. Considering at the time, anyone would believe anything, I would've done that as well.
Gabriele Genota
Excuse me, "Rape ours"?
Americans didn't get raped, the chinese did.
Japan isnt blamed for their war crimes and cruelty because of what they did against U.S soldiers, no, they are blamed for the massacre of the chinese population.
When they "raped" anyone's asses it was not methaphorically, they literally raped and murdered most of the chinese women of the captured cities, so think twice before saying that you would do the same.
Japan: So anyway, we started blasting
What i love about this movie is how it portrays death in combat. There was no glory no redemption. Men just die
The Japanese almost always fought for the beach. Thats why the other guys were so nervous/worried. They'd never seen this tactic before.
日本側の視点から作られた作品。
この映画を作ってくれてありがとう。
脚本は日本人なのかな？？
日本人としてこの作品を違和感なく楽しめた。
It shows empathy and historical research, an American made film but grounded in the Japanese perspective. I think it’s important to tell history from many points of view.
I just feel like there are too many of those American war hero movies, not that they are all bad, just would like to see more movies from the Axis perspective
Majority of their veterans and records were either killed and destroyed
Even if they tried, it would still be far too inaccurate.
There’s plenty of those. Theyre just not American movies.
Cough cough
Downfall
I love the overlapping shots from Flags. It makes it feel cohesive, like it truly is the same exact universe.
There is a saying: Give him the inch and he'll take the yard.Kuribayashi gave the yard and made the Marines pay the inch very dearly.
That’s a good way to put it
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Thanks.When the campaign to free the Phillippines started, the Japanese used the same tactic:To yield the yard.Just because it was the Army , it didn't get the highlights Marines always did.
@@anibalcesarnishizk2205 The same thing happened on Guadalcanal, although that was because the Marines landed much earlier than the Japanese thought they would.
"Nobody can survive that"
"Oh but they can"
I dont know whats worse in this scenario, watching the marines land knowing your fate, or being a marine landing on the beach not knowing the hell that is about to be unleashed on you.
one of the best war movies I have ever seen. You learn so much about Japanese culture in this.
Such a moving film and very well acted.
0:38 No one can deny this but this is the dam coolest scene thing in this movie.
I enjoyed this movie more than flags of our fathers. They’re both good movies though, it’s cool seeing both points of view.
Flags was so boring.
I wonder why ppl don't just chill and enjoy the film?
Ruohao Li my god man are you insane, a youtube video without petty squables? thats like a war film without the war no logic
Because everyone is a (keyboard) warrior here.
because war film is the one of the most popular for commenting soldiers in the global battlefield which is called CZcams....
Racism
My grad father was one of those men who stormed the beach. I’m in my late 20s now and can’t imagine the courage it must have taking. Sadly he passed away from cancer in 2010. He didn’t tell me much since I was young at the time but I wish we could have been old enough to ask legitimate questions for future generations: his metals he earned already speak volumes and from what my uncles told me i understand and glad I didn’t ask further. Even after 60 years those memories still hurt:
He was still had a good sense of humor but just like my uncles from Vietnam never brought it up. He was on iwo , tinian and Saipan. All of them when he was 17- 19
Respect to him for his courage, no matter his ideals, he was willing to put his life on the line fir what he believed in. Shame he didn't wanna tell you more, one day veterans of his generations will be gone and we will have to keep their memories alive.
Great movie. I thought it better than Flags of our fathers. Made the Japanese seem human, defending their land.
I think people forget the japanese ammo shortage issue throughout the war. kinda explains some things.
An entire generation went through war. Crazy to think how it impacts our world today.
Mass inmigration and feminist in schools are the impacts.
Clint Eastwood + Steven Spielberg + WW2 = masterpiece. Hope they can work togerther again in the future
This is a great feat for Eastwood to make the same movie but from two different perspectives. Deserves more credit. Also it’s strange to watch this and the pacific then watch my hero academia. How times change because of war.
it's good to see a German subtitle included. the language of Japan's ally during WW2
Du hast Rechts mein Freund.Es ist sehr schön auf deutsch zu lesen.
Here's how historian Francis Pike described the landing at Iwo Jima:
Advancing toward Chidori Airport, the leading Marines were suddenly cut down by concealed underground positions. Kuribayashi's death machine roared into action. It turned into a battle like no other in World War II. Japan's defenders had the advantage over attackers. Mobility, which characterized the advantage usually afforded the attacker in this era, was entirely nullified in a fight that had to be won hole by hole, pillbox by pillbox, and cave by cave. By the end of the first day of fighting, 600 Americans lay dead and a further 2,000 more had been wounded. Unusually, some of the highest casualties were engineers of the 133rd Seabees. The western beaches were strewn with wrecked machines, body parts, and mangled bodies. At 5.00 pm, a sickened Keith Wheeler told Robert Sherrod of Life magazine, "There's more hell in there than I've seen in the rest of the war put together."
The one guy who yells fire every 3 seconds..
Well, Among the Japanese tank commanders they believe that by yelling ''HU-TE'' to order his crew firing the gun, it gives the shell +10% Velocity, +10% accuracy and +20% splash damage ...
my grandpa was in iwo jima he was one of few who survived his regiment
I hope he served the emperor well.
Somebody 1: Let's build Artilleries quick!
Somebody 2: We can use Tanks as Artilleries also.
I love both films a very good way of showing us what it was like preparing for the upcoming conflict that going to start and that it showed us how nervous both sides were when they were to meet their enemy on the battlefield I would put racism aside the Japanese had only 12,000 troops not even enough to delay a naval force that size from overtaking Iwo Jima and the general knew with only 12,000 troops won't be able to hold out against the Americans within a month when he requested renforcements from the mainland and they told him that they can no longer provide any troops to sent to aid Iwo Jima in they had no more navy left to send to provide support and so he was left on his own to delay the Americans advance and hoping to prevent them from using their airfield to deploy new long range bombers to strike the heart of Japan itself
this movie moved my heart.
so great movie……！！
Why is there a homosexual in your pfp?
Japan at the time was under the control of one of the most brutal regimes in the world, but I've always respected their soldiers in the conventional fight, incredibly tenacious.
Study real history, not American propaganda
The tactics were pretty terrible. Japan wasted countless thousands of soldiers in pointless Banzai charges and that were more about bravado than anything else. Even when all hope is lost pockets of rifle armed men can hold an enemy up longer than a thousand men charging into a wall of machine gun fire and dying in a matter of minutes. They were also terrible at adapting their tactics. If a thousand men attack the West side of a hill and get slaughtered, did they try attacking the East side instead? Nope. Just keep sending a thousand men at a time up the West side till you run out of men.
@@goatwarrior3570 no banzai charge in iwo jima
@@galihprasojo40 There was at least one. It ended as you'd imagine.
@@goatwarrior3570 They only used banzai charges as a last resort, when all other options were depleted. They believed it was better to die fighting than surrender to the enemy. Surrender is considered extremely dishonourable in Japanese culture.
One of the things I liked the most about this movie other than actually showing the Axis powers (Japan in this case) in a fair note is that they also showed how Japan didn't understand combined arms which lead to in fighting between the Army and Navy.
They do in early WW2 and defeated ABDA
I was 6 years old when i boarded a C-130 at Yokota Air Base outside of Tokyo and flew to a small island named Iwo Jima.
Then as a grown adult i saw the movie and my memories came flooding back... I was there, on that island 41 years after the battle... And in my minds eye saw it all....
I'd shit in my pants if I see these many boats coming for landing
Top 10 anime beach episode
I think this movie did a good job of giving the us marines an ominous feel. Like impending doom
Around 140k-150k participants in this 5 week battle. Some 110k US troops, and some 20k-22k Imperial Japanese.
They waited a little over an hour after the initial landings to open fire. The initial ratio was 3 Americans per 2 Japanese. An utterly useless piece of land that was not even used.
A little perspective, the combined allied landing of Normandy had around 10k casualties. Iwo Jima, almost 20k (granted, the entire 5 weeks). The Pacific was a monster, but not nearly as bad as the USSR and Third Reich front. Battle of Rhzev (a series of offensives), over 5 million participants. Of which, 2-3 million casualties (killed, wounded, sick, and missing).
Where “the meat grinder” comes from.
Wait I haven't seen this but is this flags of our fathers but the Japanese perspective?
Aye, it is.
It's really good. I liked better than Flags of our Fathers. Check it out. "Letters of Iwo Jima"
SpeedStick it's made by the same crew behind flags of our fathers
shooter downunder They actually shot both at the same time from both perspectives.
Yeah
Who else is having fun in BFV?
Meee! The Pacific has saved BFV
A n i r E d s ϟ - I agree, this expansion is one of the best dice has ever released
@@arcanusluvalus1388 Yes i hope they Contiune like this i am Hyped for Wake Island and i hope the Eastern front is coming to the game that would be Awsome and of course D-Day Please
Sorry for my englisch i'm from Germany
Hans Blitzkrieg probably because you were never good in the first place¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Ruling Iwo Jima with the m4 Sherman😏
I JUST watched Flags of our Fathers last night, now to watch its other side tonight!
This and Cory in the house are my favorite animes.
2:37 I feel sorry for that guy. That is ALWAYS me. No matter what video game it is that involves warfare. Just minding my own damn business whenever a rocket, grenade, mortar, tank shell, bomb, Insert any other bs explosive lands right next to me. That being said. I preferred letters from iwo jima over flags of our fathers tbh.
Iwo Jima and Okinawa shattered US strategists' hopes for a conventional defeat of Japan. If you respect the Japanese's fighting will and skill on Iwo Jima like I do, then I expect you to respect the US decision to nuke Japan instead of carrying out a land invasion in Operation Downfall.
@@TheMilito1 Joke's on you. Wartime Japan has no concept of "combatant" or "civilian". They forced Okinawans to either fight or commit suicide.
@@TheMilito1 If Operation Downfall happens, they WILL fight as insurgents and still die.
@@TheMilito1 400000, add in those barbecued by LeMay in Toyko and Nagoya. They will fight. And die. Yes.
@@TheMilito1 the dirty bombs were more ethical than an invasion of Japan and you’re crazy if you think otherwise. Look at how many Chinese civilians were killed by the Japanese. Millions.
we asian's had a knack to fight till death entering the 20th century, so yeah I agree with that view
*Edit - not that any war and killing is just.... but the point of that historic moment and tragedy is, sometimes, you had to bash ppl really hard before they rlly sober up. That's the point of the 2 bombs
I think what makes war so incomprehensibly horrifying to those who haven't experienced it, is partly the sheer monotony for long periods of time, followed by the sudden plunge into a luck-based frantic survival situation. You spend weeks, months even, squabbling over shit buckets and trying to keep your feet from rotting off in a dark little hole, and instantly one day the world begins exploding, people you've come to know as you've sat and waited and performed your routine duties are utterly butchered around you, and each second you're convinced you'll hear that one last microsecond-long whizzing sound before the lights go out.
Mind-numbing, torturous boredom, punctuated with true understanding of how much deeper the well of human hatred is than you ever thought possible.
戦闘が始まる前のBGM好き
Joke? You like It? The war is alway a tragedy!
@@david-qx2qz What? I'm just saying that the movie's OST is good, not praising the war.
@@user-qs7bp3cg2uYou meant? I'm so sorry....
@@david-qx2qz No problem.
ペリー来航から92年でここまで渡り合うの凄い
My grandpa was a marine and got shot in the back in Iwo Jima and continued to serve in Korea
The best retold war movie I've ever watched.
Yamamoto knew it would be a loss as soon as the Pearl Harbour attack failed. As he and the Naval command knew, they did not sinknany aircraft carriers so it was a failure. The age of the Battleship was over sinking Arizona etc, was nearly pointless..
2:36 bruh a rocket would never be that accurate. especially in ww2