Message from asarnoff

[Anonymous]

I know it's not a foreign film but just saw "Letters from Iwo Jima" and it was very well done. One interesting thing I picked up on was the protagonists. The characters we were supposed to feel for were the only ones who had what seemed to be American values. These were the men that didn't go with the crowd in doing what they were told, however ridiculous, like shooting a little dog or needlesley commiting suicide. The protagonists used their own minds, their own judgements, showed individual strenght - not an honorable quality for a Japanese soldier, but in an American's eyes it is.

Is that a true reflection of certain Japanese soldiers? Would this film be liked in Japan? It'd be interesting to find out...