He studied in Harvard and drove all around the country in 1928. He was very smart and rational, and had lived in America. “He was a very unique general, not typical in the traditional Japan of his time,” says Academy Award nominee Ken Watanabe (The Last Samurai). His research into the Japanese side of the battle brought him inexorably to the man behind the resourceful and unusual Japanese strategies on Iwo Jima: Lt. In the case of the Japanese, they were told they weren’t coming back.” Americans were sent into the South Pacific hoping that they were going to survive knowing it was going to be tough but hoping that they were going to come back. I wondered who the tactician was on the other side, what their feelings were and what their mentality was. “They didn’t know why the Japanese were able to withstand such tremendous bombardment from the Navy and the Naval Air Corps. “You start analyzing one story, where the Americans were invading the island, and you realize that they didn’t know why everybody was there,” Eastwood reflects.
But as his research took him deeper and deeper into the story behind one of the largest and most devastating battles in modern history –Iwo Jima – he felt a strong and persistent presence in everything he read. Including Clint Eastwood and Ken WatanabeĬlint Eastwood did not set out two make two films when he began his work preparing to make ‘Flags of Our Fathers’.
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