Letters from Iwo Jima

I reluctantly watched this film, feeling obligated to do a review. Like so many movie fans, I am strangely resistant to foreign language movies (this one is almost all in Japanese), even though I usually enjoy them far more than I expect. Letters From Iwo Jima is a spectacular film about one of WWIIs bloodiest Pacific battles in which over 20,000 Japanese soldiers died and less than 1,000 were …