Letters from Iwo Jima is a movie about the invasion of Iwo Jima. The movie is portrayed through the Japanese soldiers’ perspective. The language that the movie is in is Japanese. At the beginning of Letters from Iwo Jima there are Japanese archeologists and they were searching the island of Iwo Jima for anything from the battle during WWII.
The next scene in Letters from Iwo Jima is a flashback to WWII. The scene showed the Japanese soldiers digging their trenches and preparing for the United States invasion. While the soldiers were digging their holes the new general came to lead them during battle. He changed their whole strategy. He decided that they didn’t need the trenched on the beach but that they needed tunnels built into the mountain.
The United States attacked Iwo Jima by plane first and when they had weakened the Japanese defenses the United States soldiers invaded the island. The general told the Japanese soldiers not to attack until the beach was full. He also gave them an order not to leave their station. If their station was under attack the Japanese soldiers would kill themselves so that they would not be taken prisoner. 
After awhile of fighting the Japanese ran out of food, water and ammunition. The Japanese refused to surrender. One of their orders was to fight until there is no one left to fight. The movie ended with the Japanese archeologists finding a sack that one of the soldiers buried during the movie. The sacks contained a bunch of letters that the soldiers wrote.
I thought that this was a really good movie. I didn’t like that it was in Japanese but I got used to reading the subtitles.
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