Letters from Iwo Jima - Renegade Cut 

My local radio station was talking about war movies and the horror of war this veterans. People kept saying American sniper and Savin private Ryan. But driving in my car, the image of our main character looking at his wife, talking to his unborn baby in her womb, a wounded am arrival soldier with letter from home. Jesus! This movie was good!

I recall how exited I was about to watch "Letters" (not being an American and not too much into movies, I've seen no spoilers, only knew it was from the Japanese perspective) and then there was that one scene, I don't think I will ever forgot, grenade pin out, grenade hits a helm, gets pushed to the chest and...

The Sam seen for me was incredibly powerful when all the soldiers realized that both sides soldiers were so much alike. And the fact they realized he wasn’t going home and nor were they

This movie feels like a sharp contrast to the pacific campaigns in Call of Duty World at War, which were released only two years from each other. When the west has been moving away from glorifying American war efforts in World War 2 and being able to produce monumental pieces like Letters from Iwo Jima to finally provide more nuanced understanding of that conflict, World at War feels especially anachronistic with its propaganda poster-ish portrayal of the Japanese.

Excellent review! Thank you very much 🙏

Of the two movies, I like this one alot better than Flags of our Fathers. Then again this might be a non-US thing. It´s not that I like one side better than the other, but as a movie this one is so much better than the first one. That film just felt like a sad love story to the US Army, this one is more about war itself a subject I like better than gloryfing & demonizing one side of a story. So if I haven´t seen one and only could see one of them it would be this one, Letters from Iwo Jima

Remember we are all human,everyone hates wars but the rich start them and the poor have to fight them 🇺🇸 🇯🇵

Pentagon does more than just give funding to war films, it lends materials from uniforms to vehicles for more or less free, but requires scripts to go through them first. The Hollywood War Machine by Carl Boggs and Tom Pollard, and Operation Hollywood by David L Robb discuss the history and specifics of this. It's even not just war movies, realyl any movie that features US military supplies goes through the same process unless they want to buy their stuff from surplus stores. Notably the one big budget movie that surpassed that system was Thin Red Line. Meanwhile, there have been films that were never made because Pentagon refused to back them without script revvisions the directors refused. And on that, I would say the anti-war message of Letters From iwo jima is more permissible because it shows the Japanese contemplating the futility of war, because that still fits well enough in the American view of war history.

Probably the most underrated war movie (and movies in general)

I remember watching this film a few years back but I don't recall it having much of an impression on me, but I think I'll watch this again and Flags of Our Fathers to see if perhaps I would like it better now.

Very insightful. I never thought about war movies that way before. Thank you for sharing this.

Great analysis, as always.

I like this guy. Should make more bideos

2:53 I just re-watched this movie and I think they did the same thing with the gore.

cool video thanks man

Looks interesting, I might look for this.

Yay!

Have you ever tried doing an analysis on "Thin Red Line", it's one of the few war movies I've seen that can't be mistaken for being pro-war (like "Letters from Iwo Jima").

I loved this analysis of one of my favorite *ahem* war films. I 'm wondering have you ever seen Grave of the Fireflies? It has been said it is the penultimate anti-war movies. (Don't quote me on that.)

Finally watched the movie. May be better than Flags OUF. Good review.

almost every war film is anti-war

GERMANY *soldier: destroy that

Do "Dark Star"!

I can't see how "Letters from Iwo Jima" is an anti war movie. Of course, it shows the cruelty of war, but many modern pro war movies do this as well. A true anti war movie has not only to show blood and bodies, but it has to question, if it is justified to fight the war on a moral and political basis. You might say, that politcs shouldn't be in movies, but a war is always used by governments, to reach political aims. That's why an anti war movie without politics (like Iwo Jima) can never really work. It's impossible to explain in one sentence, how you could question the war of the USA against Japan in WWII. But a first hint might be the oil embargo, the USA put on Japan, maybe to provoke them firing the first bullet. And just to avoid confusion: I do not defend neither Japan nor Nazi-Germany in WWII whatsoever. I'm just anti war in general, including the Allies in WWII.

The unapologetically racist Clint Eastwood created a movie addressing how BOTH sides of a war receive propaganda and have their people unfairly dehumanized? What happened?

*nope*