Posts Tagged ‘defeat’

Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
Genres: Drama | History | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Watanabe, Ken | Ninomiya, Kazunari | Ihara, Tsuyoshi | Kase, Ryo | Nakamura, Shido | Watanabe, Hiroshi | Bando, Takumi | Matsuzaki, Yuki | Yamaguchi, Takashi | Ozaki, Eijiro | Nae | Sakagami, Nobumasa | Eberl, Luke | Saito, Sonny | Sekiyoshi, Steve Santa
Directors: Eastwood, Clint
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The island of Iwo Jima stands between the American military force and the home islands of Japan. Therefore the Imperial Japanese Army is desperate to prevent it from falling into American hands and providing a launching point for an invasion of Japan. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi is given command of the forces on the island and sets out to prepare for the imminent attack. General Kuribayashi, however, does not favor the rigid traditional approach recommended by his subordinates, and resentment and resistance fester among his staff. In the lower echelons, a young soldier, Saigo, a poor baker in civilian life, strives with his friends to survive the harsh regime of the Japanese army itself, all the while knowing that a fierce battle looms. When the American invasion begins, both Kuribayashi and Saigo find strength, honor, courage, and horrors beyond imagination.

Redbelt (2008)

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Addiss, Jeffrey | Alfieri, Joseph | Allen, Tim | Barcellos, Douglas | Bator, Craig Collington | Cable, Matt | Canfield, Ryan Everett | Cantillo, Jose Pablo | Couture, Randy | DeCastro, Steve | Ejiofor, Chiwetel | Fair, Justin | Farrell, Scott | Fitzgerald, Hugh | Goldberg, Mike
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A fateful event leads to a job in the film business for top mixed-martial arts instructor Mike Terry. Though he refuses to participate in prize bouts, circumstances conspire to force him to consider entering such a competition.

Last Samurai, The (2003)

Thursday, February 1st, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | War
Countries: Japan | New Zealand | USA
Actors: Shin Koyamada | Watanabe, Ken | Cruise, Tom | Atherton, William | Lindberg, Chad | Godshall Sr., Ray | Connolly, Billy | Goldwyn, Tony | Harada, Masato | Odate, Masashi | Koyama, John | Spall, Timothy | Nakamura, Shichinosuke | Igawa, Togo | Nikaido, Satoshi | Wada, Shintaro
Directors: Zwick, Edward
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In the 1870s, Captain Nathan Algren, a cynical veteran of the American Civil war who will work for anyone, is hired by Americans who want lucrative contracts with the Emperor of Japan to train the peasant conscripts for the first standing imperial army in modern warfare using firearms. The imperial Omura cabinet’s first priority is to repress a rebellion of traditionalist Samurai -hereditary warriors- who remain devoted to the sacred dynasty but reject the Westernizing policy and even refuse firearms. Yet when his ill-prepared superior force sets out too soon, their panic allows the sword-wielding samurai to crush them. Badly wounded Algren’s courageous stand makes the samurai leader Katsumoto spare his life; once nursed to health he learns to know and respect the old Japanese way, and participates as advisor in Katsumoto’s failed attempt to save the Bushido tradition, but Omura gets repressive laws enacted- he must now choose to honor his loyalty to one of the embittered sides when the conflict returns to the battlefield…