Synopsis: In 1945, at the island of Iwo Jima, Japanese soldiers defend the island with no air or naval support. The Americans bomb the island from air and water and then invade it. The main character is Saigo, who before being drafted was a baker with a pregnant wife. The general adopts the tactics of digging tunnels on the mountains. Several of his officers are constantly opposing him.
Appraisal: This is, in general terms, a formally (though not historically, as dust-7 pointed out at the User Comments section of IMDb) correct movie, with a well structured screenplay, and with some spectacle value. There are some incursions into bullshit territory that I cannot leave uncommented: (1) the general's regret about not having cleaned the kitchen floor; (2) the general reads the letter from the prisoner's mom aloud, and gives his soldiers the same recommendation made by her, "do the right thing because it is the right thing"; it would be preposterous for a general to do a thing like that, since a war presupposes a certain level of emotional distancing from your enemy; (3) the dog subplot (ridiculous!); (4) admiral Ito going on a lonely excursion and lying on the ground with the dead men (the probable course of action here would be to tie the mines to corpses and walk away, and by the way that is what occurred in real life).
Rating: 63
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