Takashi Fujitani, History, University of California, San Diego
Carol Gluck, History, Columbia University
Akira Mizuta Lippit, Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California
| DATE: | Friday, January 23, 2009 |
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| TIME: | 5:00 PM to 8:30 PM |
| PLACE: | Pacific Film Archive Theater |
| FORMAT: | Film screening |
| SPONSORS: | Center for Japanese Studies, Pacific Film Archive |
Clint Eastwood’s Flags of Our Father and Letters from Iwo Jima depicted one of the most horrific WWII battles in the Pacific theater from both the American and Japanese points of view. Letters from Iwo Jima, based on letters written by General Tadamichi Kuribayashi (portrayed in the film by Ken Watanabe), is the first major Hollywood film on the Pacific War that managed to portray the Japanese from the perspective of ordinary soldiers and as fellow human beings.
