I want to se a film from the Wehrmacht's perspective

@@marseldagistani1989 people would call us Nazis but I would actually be really interested in that film

You need to know both sides of war to respect what the soldiers did and also to never repeat war in the same way again

@@marseldagistani1989 there’s a series on KZfaq called dusty faces, its superb

@@natealvarez9979 people would call us Nazis if we show the SS and the death camps

He was right.

It was suicide. He knew each man could’ve been utilized better than an ancient ritualistic suicide attack.

It's because he went to a U.S.A. academy and know their tactics and ways. Japanese culture due to past wars especially the sengoku period made the bushido code absolute

Not really. Banzai charges served two perposes and were generally (in the later part of the war) only done for two purposes: 1) an honourable death 2) A last ditch all or nothing assault to regain lost ground when rations/ammonition were close to beeing empty. The first part never lost its purpose. It was basically ritual suicide with the goal of taking as many enemies with them as they could when there was no alternative anymore to continue fighting efficently The second part was a valid military strategy that was actually used in A LOT of militaries all around the world in WW2. If you are forced to eather usrrender or go on the last ditch offensive depending on your enemy and nationality you eather surrender or try to break out. There were alot of comparable instances on the eastern front on both the soviet and the german side of banzai style assaults. The goal simply wasnt an honorouble death but pure survival. It is a shock tactic that is designed to break the enemies line to create eather a breakthrough eather to escape or to open a front line. The way the japanease used banzai attacks initially as the usual assault was stupid though. Althoguh our image of suicide banzai charges around the clock by the japanease is very wrong. It was mainly done because, in contrast to the burma or china frontline, during the island battles the japanease military could only retreat or fall back to a degree. Evacuation was in most cases not possible so it was fighting to the death/starvation, etc. or a suicide charge. Surrender was never an option like with most militarys.

@@noobster4779 I will place my confidence and trust in the mind of that Japanese general than some pseudo historian.

@johnmann Actually..only a few thousand Marines died while the entire Japanese garrison was slaughtered. HOWEVER... The huge number of Marine wounded along with with the dead made up for the US having a high casualty rate than the Japanese... Albeit by a few thousand Margin. This also made the entire battle a controversy as Commanders reviewed the Strategic importance of the Island for such high Casualties

Johnman false. We had more casualties. As far as deaths per capita in a war of attrition. Iwo jima suffered more losses on the Japanese side.

@@darkastrophel3640 It wasn't so much of the Japanese equipment, but more so thay Japanese soldiers were more experienced and fought better and the inexperienced US soldiers.

@@andrewelam1728 Exactly. Right you are. I know that.

Its funny, he arguably made a much better movie for the Japanese side too

Yeah most soldiers didn’t even get to know and observe their enemy. They were taught that they were subhuman monsters and vicious creatures than real humans.

War is hell.

Ikr

We were the good guys.

​@@bullhead900 Some were, some weren't. Most of the soldiers on any side were neither, they were just regular humans that had both goodness and badness in them.

What unit? If you don't mind me asking.

brakie44820 My Great Grandfather sent letters to my great grandmother from Iwo Jima, he couldn't disclose his position so he sent the letters to "Irene Jane" and my great grandmother knew it was Iwo Jima...

My 94 year old grandfather is a third wave iwo jimma marine mortar man. Doesn’t talk much anymore but I remember when he did. They truly were the greatest generation.

brakie44820 this man I knew that passed away wrote me a letter about his experience there he got shot in the back

My Dad’s uncle fought on Iwo Jima. He never spoke about it. He was supposed to partake in the invasion of Japan. A few weeks before they dropped the Atom Bomb he wrote a letter home stating that he wasn’t coming back. After witnessing how fiercely the Japanese fought on Iwo Jima, he knew there was no way he would live through an attack on their home islands.

Aye!

Yeah. Clint Eastwood directed both and LFIJ was shot as soon as production for FOOF ended. Great director and I think this is his most beautiful film

What does FOOF mean(googled it didn't find answers:(

Pea Nut Thanks:)

saving private ryan was normandy beach not in the pacific

Could you tell me the tittle of this movie?

@@javierdarmadi2086 "Letters from Iwo Jima"

Generation war?

Don’t forget about Saving Private Ryan has a splendid direction and performances and shows the war very dark and realistic.

Wtf? You forgot saving private ryan, we were soldiers, hamburger Hill, enemy's at the gate?, you joking dude.

American Sniper could of been better but Flags of Our Fathers, Letters From Iwo Jima, Heartbreak Ridge, The Mule, all amazing movies.

@@rc59191 the whole point of film was to make you see all sides as human beings, every person being stabbed, shot, set on fire, blown to hell, all of them were just like us.. people

@@Chuked I never said it wasn't.

@@rc59191 American sniper was filled with bs

@@marcusaurelius3487 Agreed. So was Heartbreak Ridge.

Bullet-Tooth Tony They are pretty damn tough. Shame that poor tactics and weapons make them look like suicidal maniacs more than soldiers.

Wrestling Fan well they did have some good tactics especially when it came to defence ( iwo jima, okinawa) and they put up a hell of a fight in battles against large chinese and russian armies ( battle of wuhan, battle of khalkin gol) Banzai charges were pretty much only a last resort when the soldiers ammunition and supplies ran dry.

Wrestling Fan, The myth of poor Japanese strategy comes from, as Tony said, acts of desperation. Basically, when the Germans or the Americans ran out of ammunition and the situation was completely hopeless, they surrendered- the Japanese would charge or commit suicide. Given the isolated nature of their island defenses, this happened frequently. Unlike in films or video games, even truly bloody battles usually involve a fairly small number of actual deaths and a HUGE number of wounded and captured, the Japanese simply skewed this scale through their reluctance to surrender. When fully supplied with proper support, the Japanese were professional soldiers like any other. Observers at the time saw what they thought were irrational, foolish tactics. This is not unlike the way the myth of the soviet not even issued a rifle developed- German blitzkrieg simply smashed through Soviet liens at such an alarming rate that they quickly ran into rear-echelon soldiers who were not armed- cooks, medical personal, truck drivers ect- and it appeared that the Russians were throwing unarmed soldiers into the fray.

Tristen Noble They might not have 6 million soldiers as they used to back in WW2, however Japan does still have a formidable military, there soldiers are well trained and they have an advanced navy and a good amount of air craft. There military strength consists of about 250,000 Active personnel 57,900 reserves, 131 navy ships which include 43 destroyers, 3 air craft carriers, 17 submarines, 6 coastal defence boats, 27 mine warfare boats. Then theres it's air force which has a total of 1,590 air craft, thats 287 fighters/interceptors, 287 fixed wing attack planes, 481 transport air craft, 757 attack helicopters and 447 trainer air craft. Japan today mostly has a military that is designed for defending more then attacking. But rest assured they would give any invader a pretty hard beat down, the Japanese have never forgotten the ways of their ancestors the samurai, and i am certain they would fight just as hard as they did in WW2.

Bullet-Tooth Tony more like deluded fanatics

How 'bout I do *anyway* ?

Those were confusing times.

@@goatwarrior3570 hello

This is a movie. in real life there obviously weren't subtitles floating in the air

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@@hughjanus8211 🤦

@Robs most likely most of the first marines were KIA or wounded.

@BlackDeathViral03 Or you step on a land mine, an artillery suddenly hit you, the transmission of your tank is damaged, a shell landed on your deck and ignite the ammo rack (HMS Hood).

John Basilone died there.

@johnmann Correction, more Americans than Japanese were casualties. Most of the American casualties were wounded though. The number of actual KIA was 3 times higher for Japan. Naturally, since they mostly committed suicide one way or another rather than surrender.

@johnmann Wikipedia lists 6821 US troops killed and 17,845-18,375 for IJA.

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I would say saving private Ryan is one of the best war movies out there. Mainly because several war veterans exited the movie after the first scene, not because it was fake, but because it was terrifyingly real

Iwo Jima is solid. Flags gets far too involved with nonsense and gets boring. The characters are also not as likable.

Try: Die Brücke (1953), Stalingrad (1993) and Das Boot.

@@andmos1001 Saving private ryan is good but it’s also very much a propaganda movie about a small group of heroes defeating a much larger yet somehow stupid enemy. Fury is the same. Not bad movies but not on the level of this movie or the German movie Stalingrad. No super heroes, death comes plentiful and randomly. And btw. I was actually very surprised visiting Normandy just how different Omaha beach looked like… Private Ryan likely does the boat scenes amazingly well but Omaha looked so different

This is what happens when people in command make violent decisions. Imagine if everybody was good friends 😔

You people were good friends with them pre 1940. Roosevelt threw that away to support Western colonialism.

They don't treat us well over in Japan. Can't really blame them either.

Japan have never apologised for all the heinous war crimes, they deserve nothing

@@jayden6047America never apologized for its war crimes either.

As a Japanese I really respect that I thought most people don’t have respect for the Japanese because of Nanking even though not all Japanese are evil

@@thenorthstarronin true but Nanking tho is just messed up

@@robertevbayekha6639 pretty much

@@thenorthstarronin Nanjing is a myth exaggerated by the United States to justify the atomic bomb. As the same Japanese, I regret that you have been brainwashed by the propaganda. If Americans say so, why did you erase from history what American soldiers did to Japanese women during the Japanese occupation? You talk about how devilish the Japanese military experimentation was, but not about the human experimentation with indigenous peoples and people with disabilities that took place in the United States. You guys are pretending to be justice heroes, but they are actually the same demons.

@@thenorthstarronin 同じ日本人として恥でしかないですわ。

I thought theyd show authentic actual letters from marines landing on iwo jima dammit.

So do you wanna be called Yankee?

Great movie, well done Eastwood

harri hiltunen You love

jawed deljo The fuck is your problem? I never said I was willingly able to betray my people.

jawed deljo And how does that make him a coward? He served his country and fought for democracy and justice against an oppressive fascist nation. He gave his greater allegiance to the United States.

jawed deljo Makes him even more of man in my opinion. He served the nation that put his people into internment camps because he knew that it was the right thing to do. He saw the greater evil as Japan. Btw, have you ever heard of immigration? Most Japanese immigrants came to the U.S. before the outbreak of World War 2. You know that his grandpa may have been an immigrant, so it isn't really "running" to the enemy. If he attained U.S. citizenship there is nothing wrong with him serving in their armed forces.

He must have been part of the one of the Japanese units then, they were tough fighters.

jawed deljo What if his country was the United States? You know that Japan doesn't allow Dual citizenship. If he came to the US and became a citizen, then the US would be his country.

It actually means strike (not fire)...

UTE can mean both strike and fire. Its the difference between 撃てand 討て. In this situation fire

Nah, it's what Aussies call pick-ups.

撃て(ute)

We should ask th responsibility for the war forever....Their decendants should also share the responsibility for the war at least! However they do as a victim of the war without any regret....It's a big problem! They do again it any time later!

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@@david-qx2qz mate, then every person on this planet has to share that responsibility then.

@@homelesslukeskywalker7277 right!

@@david-qx2qz ok let me know what you did for your responsibility.

I've watched documentaries where the actual Zero pilots who bombed Battleship Row were interviewed. Basically, you are looking at the person responsible for killing your Grandfather, father, etc. Thats haunting.

Dont paint the japanese leadership as a victim in the war. they could have instructed japanese soldiers to surrender. they could have assured their soldiers that the Americans would treat them fairly as prisoners(which was true). Instead the soldiers were instructed to kill at least 10 americans and fight to the death. Instructed to booby trap dead soldiers with grenades or to kill themselves rather than be captured. They were instructed to kill and target combat medics especially.

2 atomic bombs*

Japan was too small for great movements and too big to be taken in a few days.

@@anibalcesarnishizk2205 what do you exactly mean with great movements ? Can you explain?

@@Reupload-Kanal-Von-Lukas-Heil I have been to Japan and i saw what the land is like.The territory is rugged;few plain places for agriculture, that's why big movements like the allies did in France or the Russians in their land were not possible.Only one place allowed big manoeuvers:Kantou.

@LOL A huge military invasion will be extremely brutal with probably millions of deaths. But dropping 2 bombs on civilian cities was an obvious war crime. But its not because the victors did it. But they should have just blockaded Japan and pressured it into surrendering eventually. Japan was an island, their navy was more or less destroyed, their economy in tatters. They were going nowhere, they couldnt have sustain very long. The bombs were huge atrocities. The excuse that the atoms were to save more lives is bullsht. The Allies were in a rush to end the war because they were in a race with each other, between Soviet and the West.

Lmao

Whats more is they actually existed. The Type-98 320mm mortar carried a 660lb warhead that would leave 8ft deep craters wherever they hit.

@@fludblud And those that got slammed vanished into thin air.

😂😂😂

yep

Thanks, he's a good actor

He on the new Godzilla film as well

Ken Watanabe is the actor.

Minhaj Nizam The one coming out in 2018.

Most of the time it’s because the Japanese fought to the end instead of surrendering. The Americans usually had a high number of wounded and missing troops but low KIA because they had medical ships and infrastructure to help their wounded while Japanese garrisons were isolated after the Japanese navy was destroyed earlier in the war. It evens out more if you take that factor into consideration

@@boobtoob2507 Correct. If I remember correctly, the allies wore down the fortress islands and then attacked with strength and firepower against the depleted IJA.

@@boobtoob2507 also Singapore when 3 times smaller Japanese Army crushed British singapore the so called maginot line of Asia

@@boobtoob2507 also when 500 Japanese troops attacked 7000 chinese garrison and killed 500 chinese while 2 Japanese soldiers were lost And occupied manchuria

@@ericvonmanstein2112 yep people forget the Japanese army, when properly supplied and equipped, steamrolled British and American forces in the phillipines, Dutch East Indies, and Hong Kong while being vastly outnumbered.

SanDisk4GB4 and you know this because you were there right?

Bullshnaga Nims i studied history and disallow the current beautiful japanese culture to blind me like the fucking weebshit you are.

SanDisk4GB4 Ok keyboard warrior. leave it to a youtube troll to get all upset with somebody else's comments. You have a lovely day sir.

SanDisk4GB4 Yeah, but they were ordered to do so. Also, they were taught that we'd rape their asses if they didn't rape ours. Considering at the time, anyone would believe anything, I would've done that as well.

Gabriele Genota Excuse me, "Rape ours"? Americans didn't get raped, the chinese did. Japan isnt blamed for their war crimes and cruelty because of what they did against U.S soldiers, no, they are blamed for the massacre of the chinese population. When they "raped" anyone's asses it was not methaphorically, they literally raped and murdered most of the chinese women of the captured cities, so think twice before saying that you would do the same.

Didn't all the IJA die here, officers and all?

+Admiral Beez most of them yes

Are you thinking of "When the Tigers Broke Free" instead of "Us and Them"?

No he got it right : )

After all, we're only ordinary men.

yeap, it's take a couple seconds before you need to reload and reloading can take longer than shooting.

Firing machine gun continuously will also affect your hearing and such. The gun barrel would overheat and tear itself without cooling it off, and the fact that your foes would most likely have other supports on their side. All of that turned into stress during combat.

There was one account from the invasion of Malaya where a Japanese soldier threw himself in front of a British pillbox and obstructed the machine gun with his corpse. That allowed his comrades to move in and throw grenades into the pillbox.

It means "FIRE".

@@tomdog5265 more like the US chooses to invade sovereign countries and pays the price with blood

I like how it used the same color system to desaturate the war footage as Band Of Brothers did intil the war was over in this film . The film was not a tourism promo for holidays in the tropics with blue skys and nice beach fronts. Plenty of war footage was released in B&W while Hitlers films had many in color but we saw in B&W for that gray macabre theme to keep the focus on the oppression and death .

Kevin Kent ikr

The Japanese had no say in that partnership.

You say that like it's a bad thing, our nation thrives due to this partnership... Except for all the modern anti-social, hentai loving tentacles crap. Other than that, the U.S. saved us from the Soviets and industrialized the nation from ground zero.

Nah, like another countries member of NATO, Japan is a conquered nation.

Its a farce

That’s a good way to put it

@@andrewwestman2407 Thanks.When the campaign to free the Phillippines started, the Japanese used the same tactic:To yield the yard.Just because it was the Army , it didn't get the highlights Marines always did.

​@@anibalcesarnishizk2205 The same thing happened on Guadalcanal, although that was because the Marines landed much earlier than the Japanese thought they would.

Nonsense. You needed oil. Neither Japan nor China had oil. What precipitated the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour was the fact their oil dealer stopped selling it to them. It was the USA. The only "Asian" country that could have countered the USA (and its oil and uranium-rich ally, Canada) would have been the USSR, but they were too busy with Germany at the time. This is because the USSR had oil. And after WWII was over, this is exactly what we saw.

@@MultiCappie I agree 100 percent, can u translate the comment that u replied to?

すごくても、誇りに思っても。 戦争がいいとは絶対思わない。皮肉すぎるだろ…人殺して人間として誇りだなんて…戦争なんて辞めちまえ。

中国父さんアメリカから覇権をもぎ取るの頑張って

正直言って''互角''ではなかったと思う

Majority of their veterans and records were either killed and destroyed Even if they tried, it would still be far too inaccurate.

There’s plenty of those. Theyre just not American movies.

Cough cough Downfall

Eastwood knew the best way to honour the Americans who died fighting on Iwo Jima was to tell the truth. Somehow today, people prefer to think of the enemy as a bunch of incompetent buffoons but if that was true, then logically the Allies were a bunch of clowns for taking as long as they did to defeat them.

Ruohao Li my god man are you insane, a youtube video without petty squables? thats like a war film without the war no logic

Because everyone is a (keyboard) warrior here.

because war film is the one of the most popular for commenting soldiers in the global battlefield which is called KZfaq....

Racism

He was still had a good sense of humor but just like my uncles from Vietnam never brought it up. He was on iwo , tinian and Saipan. All of them when he was 17- 19

Respect to him for his courage, no matter his ideals, he was willing to put his life on the line fir what he believed in. Shame he didn't wanna tell you more, one day veterans of his generations will be gone and we will have to keep their memories alive.

Flags was so boring.

@@TheMilito1 Joke's on you. Wartime Japan has no concept of "combatant" or "civilian". They forced Okinawans to either fight or commit suicide.

@@TheMilito1 If Operation Downfall happens, they WILL fight as insurgents and still die.

@@TheMilito1 400000, add in those barbecued by LeMay in Toyko and Nagoya. They will fight. And die. Yes.

@@TheMilito1 the dirty bombs were more ethical than an invasion of Japan and you’re crazy if you think otherwise. Look at how many Chinese civilians were killed by the Japanese. Millions.

we asian's had a knack to fight till death entering the 20th century, so yeah I agree with that view *Edit - not that any war and killing is just.... but the point of that historic moment and tragedy is, sometimes, you had to bash ppl really hard before they rlly sober up. That's the point of the 2 bombs

Du hast Rechts mein Freund.Es ist sehr schön auf deutsch zu lesen.

I hope he served the emperor well.

Why is there a homosexual in your pfp?

Gerald Deliva it's also from The Pacific

Guys, This person gets it. I was Hoping some one knew where I got that line from.

its from Saving Private Ryan its the part when they flamethrower the bunker at Omaha beach in D day

Zachary JBo from a film far more unrealistic than this one

mike poloni since it said "based on a real event/story"

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They do in early WW2 and defeated ABDA

It shows empathy and historical research, an American made film but grounded in the Japanese perspective. I think it’s important to tell history from many points of view.

Study real history, not American propaganda

The tactics were pretty terrible. Japan wasted countless thousands of soldiers in pointless Banzai charges and that were more about bravado than anything else. Even when all hope is lost pockets of rifle armed men can hold an enemy up longer than a thousand men charging into a wall of machine gun fire and dying in a matter of minutes. They were also terrible at adapting their tactics. If a thousand men attack the West side of a hill and get slaughtered, did they try attacking the East side instead? Nope. Just keep sending a thousand men at a time up the West side till you run out of men.

@@goatwarrior3570 no banzai charge in iwo jima

@@galihprasojo40 There was at least one. It ended as you'd imagine.

@@goatwarrior3570 They only used banzai charges as a last resort, when all other options were depleted. They believed it was better to die fighting than surrender to the enemy. Surrender is considered extremely dishonourable in Japanese culture.

Well, Among the Japanese tank commanders they believe that by yelling ''HU-TE'' to order his crew firing the gun, it gives the shell +10% Velocity, +10% accuracy and +20% splash damage ...

Meee! The Pacific has saved BFV

A n i r E d s ϟ - I agree, this expansion is one of the best dice has ever released

@@arcanusluvalus1388 Yes i hope they Contiune like this i am Hyped for Wake Island and i hope the Eastern front is coming to the game that would be Awsome and of course D-Day Please Sorry for my englisch i'm from Germany

Hans Blitzkrieg probably because you were never good in the first place¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Ruling Iwo Jima with the m4 Sherman😏

Joke? You like It? The war is alway a tragedy!

@@david-qx2qz What? I'm just saying that the movie's OST is good, not praising the war.

@@user-qs7bp3cg2uYou meant? I'm so sorry....

@@david-qx2qz No problem.

Aye, it is.

It's really good. I liked better than Flags of our Fathers. Check it out. "Letters of Iwo Jima"

SpeedStick it's made by the same crew behind flags of our fathers

shooter downunder They actually shot both at the same time from both perspectives.

Yeah

THAT THING WAS AWESOME!!!!

Ryan Deitch In real life it was more of a psychological weapon than a conventional one.

Artificial Intelligence Yeah, I read about it. Was it that accurate?

Ryan Deitch I think not. The shot on the Sherman was pretty lucky.

Lucky hit.