It's a better movie for that, as well as the decision to play everything in Japanese with English subtitles. Where Flags of our Fathers dealt with the public relations story behind Iwo Jima, Letters is more closely focussed on the battle itself, and leaves the island only in a few brief flashbacks. Returning to the pivotal second world war battle, this time from a Japanese perspective, Eastwood has fashioned a quietly powerful indictment of the war's wanton waste, and anchored it with a fearsome performance from Ken Wanatabe. This is the second of Clint Eastwood's double bill of films about Iwo Jima, although the tone and colour palette is so similar to last year's Flags Of Our Fathers that it could easily be the second half of the same movie.
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