Clint Eastwood directs this movie about Japanese soldiers during the invasion of this small island. The time is WWII. The story goes into the human side of the Japanese, rather than concentrating on the emotionless automatons they were perceived as. As the title suggests, the soldiers wrote home to their families & spouses just as the Americans did. In fact, the letters pretty much said the same things on both sides.
Much of the story focuses on the overwhelming odds the Japanese were facing, and the fact that they knew that right from the start. Regardless, they stayed the course, fought & died for their motherland.
It's a good movie, but somehow it just didn't do it for me. IMO, a lot of the sets were obviously fake. I think that it would have been better if more parallels and differences would have been highlighted. It also would have been much better if about an hour had been lopped off in the editing room.
I'm not sorry I saw it, nor do I feel ripped off. After the movie, Leenie asked me if I liked it. I told her I just wasn't feeling it.
*** out of *****
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