Letters from Iwo Jima Quotes
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi: You are quite a soldier
Saigo: No, just a simple baker
Saigo: No, just a simple baker
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General Tadamichi Kuribayashi: For our homeland. Until the very last man. Our duty is to stop the enemy right here. Do not expect to return home alive.
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General Tadamichi Kuribayashi: If our children can live safely for one more day it would be worth the one more day that we defend this island.
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Lt. Colonel Oiso: We will make a run for Motoyama. There is no cover for 2 kilometers, it will be every man for himself. See you on the other side, if not on this earth, then in the next world.
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General Tadamichi Kuribayashi : The United States is the *last* country in the world that Japan should fight.
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General Tadamichi Kuribayashi : I am determined to serve and give my life for my country.
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General Tadamichi Kuribayashi : If our children can live safely for one more day it would be worth the one more day that we defend this island.
Movie: Letters from Iwo Jima
Saigo : We can die here, or we can continue fighting. Which would better serve the emperor?
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General Tadamichi Kuribayashi : A day will come when they will weep and pray for your souls.
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General Tadamichi Kuribayashi : We will build those underground fortifications. And fight till the end.
Movie: Letters from Iwo Jima
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi : For our homeland. Until the very last man. Our duty is to stop the enemy right here. Do not expect to return home alive.
Movie: Letters from Iwo Jima
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi : You are quite a soldier
Saigo : No, just a simple baker
Saigo : No, just a simple baker
Movie: Letters from Iwo Jima
Shimizu : I don't know anything about the enemy. I thought all Americans were cowards. I was taught they were savages.
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Saigo : [ a letter to Saigo's wife ] We soldiers dig. We dig all day. This is the hole that we will fight and die in. Am I digging my own grave?
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Baron Nishi : [ reading the letter from the mother of Sam, the dead marine ] And always do what's right because it's right.
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Lt. Colonel Oiso : We will make a run for Motoyama. There is no cover for 2 kilometers, it will be every man for himself. See you on the other side, if not on this earth, then in the next world.
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Lieutenant Okubo : Shall I finish him off?
Baron Nishi : No. Treat him.
Lieutenant Okubo : But, sir...
Baron Nishi : Okubo, you would expect the same, wouldn't you? Endo, treat him.
Medic Endo : We are low on morphine as it is.
Shimizu : Sir, the Americans would not treat a wounded Japanese soldier.
Baron Nishi : Son, have you ever met one? Treat him. [ Shimizu is lost for words ]
Baron Nishi : No. Treat him.
Lieutenant Okubo : But, sir...
Baron Nishi : Okubo, you would expect the same, wouldn't you? Endo, treat him.
Medic Endo : We are low on morphine as it is.
Shimizu : Sir, the Americans would not treat a wounded Japanese soldier.
Baron Nishi : Son, have you ever met one? Treat him. [ Shimizu is lost for words ]
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Baron Nishi : This is a picture of me and my horse champion.
Sam : [ Sam smiles and chuckles ] No kidding. Oklahoma, it's where I'm from.
Baron Nishi : Takeichi.
Sam : Sam. [ Both men shake hands ]
Sam : [ Sam smiles and chuckles ] No kidding. Oklahoma, it's where I'm from.
Baron Nishi : Takeichi.
Sam : Sam. [ Both men shake hands ]
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General Tadamichi Kuribayashi : [ Tadamichi turns up in time to stop Ito from beheading Saigo and Shimizu ] I don't want you to kill my soldiers needlessly. Put down your sword. Put it down! [ Ito sheathes his katana and salutes ]
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi : What's going on here?
Lieutenant Ito : These men ran from Suribachi.
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi : Lt. Ito, I gave the order that all survivors retreat to the north caves.
Lieutenant Ito : [ embarrassed ] I am very sorry, General. It's just... Suribachi... has fallen. [ Tadamichi rushes to a cave opening and sees Mount Suribachi from a distance, with a U.S flag raised on the summit ]
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi : What's going on here?
Lieutenant Ito : These men ran from Suribachi.
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi : Lt. Ito, I gave the order that all survivors retreat to the north caves.
Lieutenant Ito : [ embarrassed ] I am very sorry, General. It's just... Suribachi... has fallen. [ Tadamichi rushes to a cave opening and sees Mount Suribachi from a distance, with a U.S flag raised on the summit ]
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