Most of the films about World War II in the past have always portrayed Japan as an aggressor. But Uncle Dongmu changed his angle this time, showing the Japanese army as the defeated side. To be precise, it is to show a defensive battle that is sure to be defeated.
When the Pacific War was drawing to a close, the Japanese army used what little troops they had to surround Iwo Jima, the southernmost point of Japan. The newly arrived General Kuribayashi knew that this was a battle with no return, but he went anyway. In the process of making best use of the terrain and trying his best to preserve the combat effectiveness of his soldiers, he had serious differences with his original subordinates. With his repeated insistence, the Japanese army's battle persisted until the last moment.
Xixiang was the one in the army who didn't want to fight the most, but he was the only one who survived. Maybe God favored him and wanted him to go back to his hometown to see his daughter he had never met. And that Shimizu, who fought for some unknown reason, thought that he could survive by surrendering, but was killed by the US military immediately. I wonder if Shimizu regretted the act of surrendering at that moment.
The war is so tragic that the entire film has no color, and the weakened black and white can only make people see the cruelty of the war. The only bright colors are Saigo and Hanako saying goodbye, and General Ribayashi returning home from a foreign country. What a wonderful memory that was.
Xixiang wrote many, many letters to Hanako, and General Li Lin also wrote many, many letters to his son, but the dispatcher was killed. So, Xixiang buried all these letters, maybe someone will find out later!
Decades later, when excavators were clearing these war caves, they found buried packages and a dense pile of unsent letters✉️…
PS: The reason why the Japanese army was defeated was because the Japanese army was defeated in the Pacific War at that time, and there were no aircraft carriers and fighter planes to support Iwo Jima. At that time, Iwo Jima had only 20,000 troops, and only rifles and mortars. In turn, when the U.S. military landed on Iwo Jima, there were dozens of aircraft carriers and 40,000 troops, not including Air Force fighters. Under the condition that the troops and weapons are not available, there is no retreat condition, and there is no choice but to die in battle. Thinking about the Anti-Japanese War in China at that time, what our army was like, millet plus rifles, guns were still captured from the enemy, it is really not a class. That's it, the Chinese people have been fighting for eight years! No matter who lost or won the war back then, there were mothers who lost their sons, wives who lost their husbands, and sons who lost their fathers. So we should hate the politicians who provoked the war, not the soldiers who died in battle.
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