Letters from Iwo Jima *
This is a sympathetic look at the Japanese soldiers who fought the Americans on a Japanese island when they were clearly outnumbered. The dialogues are in japanese and is also narrated from the perspective of japanese themselves, with minimal screen presence of American soldiers. I did not like it much because it looks like it was designed to appeal to the sentiment rather than intellect. Every now and then we are shown the 'human' sides of the soldiers and constant references to the family and stuff makes it 'soap'-ish.