Letters from Iwo Jima

Dir: Clint Eastwood
Writ: Iris Yamashita, Paul Haggis, based on the book Picture Letters from Commander in Chief by Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Tsuyoko Yoshido

Ken Watanabe – General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
Kazunari Ninomiya – Saigo
Tsuyoshi Ihara – Baron Nishi
Ryo Kase – Shimizu
Shido Nakamura – Lieutenant Ito
Hiroshi Watanabe – Lieutenant Fujita
Takumi Bando – Captain Tanida

I’m not sure what I was really [...]

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Memoirs of a Geisha

Ziyi Zhang …. Sayuri
Youki Kudoh …. Pumpkin
Li Gong …. Hatsumomo
Ken Watanabe …. Chairman
Kôji Yakusho …. Nobu
Michelle Yeoh …. Mameha

In short, this is a film that is pretty to look at, but boring to watch.
Okay, I’ll say a bit more about it:
Based on the novel by Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha has been somewhat controversial. [...]

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Tagged:  5 Stars, Arthur Golden, based on book, Bored Now!, historical fiction, Japan, Kôji Yakusho, Ken Watanabe, Li Gong, looks pretty, Memoirs of a Geisha, Michelle Yeoh, Youki Kudoh, Ziyi Zhang