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![]() ![]() The Japanese critics noted that Clint Eastwood presented Kuribayashi as a 'caring, erudite commander of Japan's Iwo Jima garrison, along with Japanese soldiers in general, in a sensitive, respectful way.' Also, the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shinbun noted that the movie is clearly 'distinguishable' from previous Hollywood movies, which tended to portray Japanese characters with non-Japanese actors (e.g., Chinese-Americans, and other Asian-Americans). ![]() The film was far more commercially successful in Japan than in the U.S., ranking number 1 for five weeks, and receiving a warm reception from both Japanese audiences and critics. Sam, wounded American Marine (credited as Lucas Elliot) As the letters spill out, the voices of the Japanese soldiers who wrote them resound. Back in 2005, the archeologists complete their digging, revealing the bag of letters that Saigo had buried, and open it.
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