Vetamur -> RE: Movie (10/16/2006 5:03:44 PM)
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Completely different movies. The Japanese one has a lot of the same financers, actors, staff, etc as OTOKOTACHI NO YAMATO. Im fairly certain there will be no English subtitled version of it. Also, although "Letters from Iwo Jima" is being marketed as "The Japanese point of view", it is going to be a very sanitized version of their point of view.. Todays Japanese by and large have a very difficult time relating to those events at all and a no holds bar look at that time is extremely difficult and would doom any movie commercially. Ive lived in Japan now for nearly 11 years (Jan. 16th will by my 11th year anniversery...) and I must say that a disappointing feature of movies made hear about that time period are generally disappointing. The one exception, and I cant remember the title at the moment, as the movie dealing with the base and surrounding in southern Japan that was the center of the TOKKAI (kamikaze) experience.
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