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  • Eastwood attacks Japan war myths

    05/27/2006 7:18:26 PM PDT · by Pokey78 · 335 replies · 7,076+ views
    The Observer (U.K.) ^ | 05/28/06 | Justin McCurry
    Two new movies based on a bloody 1945 battle are stirring up memories and forcing both sides to re-examine their history More than 60 years after it became one of the bloodiest battlefields of the Second World War, Iwo Jima's tragic history retains the power to overwhelm. As his plane prepared to land on the isolated Japanese island last month, the actor Ken Watanabe found he could not hold back the tears. Accompanying Watanabe, who shot to stardom playing a feudal warlord opposite Tom Cruise in The Last Samurai, was another hard man of Hollywood whose time on Iwo Jima...