Letters From Iwo Jima
The most American of genres—the World War II movie—used to examine war from the perspective of America's enemies. Filmed entirely in Japanese with Japanese actors, Letters from Iwo Jima proved that Eastwood's understanding of human nature was universal enough to encompass even those traditionally portrayed as inhuman. We explore how Eastwood created something unprecedented in American cinema—a war film that humanized the enemy without glorifying war, that showed the universal tragedy of conflict...