Captain Iwasaki [punching Shimizu]
If you can't even shoot a dog, you will never be able to handle the Reds!
Saigo
Kazunari Ninomiya · 8 quotes
General
Ken Kensei · 6 quotes
Lieutenant Ito
Shido Nakamura · 6 quotes
Lieutenant Colonel
Hiro Abe · 5 quotes
Lieutenant Okubo
Eijiro Ozaki · 4 quotes
Admiral Ohsugi
Nobumasa Sakagami · 3 quotes
Captain Tanida
Takumi Bando · 3 quotes
Colonel Adachi
Toshi Toda · 2 quotes
Lieutenant Fujita
Hiroshi Watanabe · 2 quotes
Letters from Iwo Jima quotes
Page 1 of 4 Captain Iwasaki Captain Iwasaki You must always be stern, Shimizu. Never show any mercy. If you do, people will take advantage of you.
Hashimoto
There should be an outlet near here- [An American flamethrower sets him on fire]
Kanda
You're deserting, aren't you? [Shimizu's face falls] If you are, take me with you. I've had enough of this war.
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.
How are we to fight?
Sam [To Nishi]
You somebody famous?
Shimizu I don't know anything about the enemy. I thought all Americans were cowards. I was taught they were savages.
Endo [about their prisoner]
Sir, he's awake.
Takeichi Nishi
[in English]
Where are you from, soldier?
Sam [nervously]
I-I'm a Marine. Able Company.
Takeichi Nishi
OK, Marine. I mean, where is your hometown? [pause] I lived in California, for a while. Do you know Mary Pickford and Douglass Fairbanks?
Sam [puzzled]
W-well, yeah, sure. Everybody knows them.
Takeichi Nishi
They are my friends. I've had them as house-guests, in Tokyo.
Sam No kidding. You, you somebody famous?
Takechi Nishi
I was in the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics.
Sam That the God's honest truth?
Takeichi Nishi
[smiles, pulls out a photo]
This is a picture of me, and my horse champion.
Sam [views the picture and chuckles]
No kidding! [pause] Oklahoma, it's where I'm from.
Takeichi Nishi
Takeichi.
Sam Sam. [they shake hands]
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!
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
[Ito sheathes his katana and salutes]
What's going on here?
These men ran from Suribachi.
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
Lt. Ito, I gave the order that all survivors retreat to the north caves.
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]
Officer's wife [In a flashback, Kuribayashi is attending a dinner party in the United States]
How would you feel if America and Japan went to war?
Kuribayashi I think we'd make splendid allies.
Officer I think she means as enemies.
Kuribayashi (a little surprised)
The United States is the last country in the world Japan should fight.
Nishi No. Treat him.
But, sir -
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.
Nishi Son, have you ever met one? Treat him. [Shimizu is lost for words]
American marine A
[Two Japanese soldiers surrender to an American patrol and two US marines are left to watch over the two new POWs]
Oh man. We're not gonna get stuck watching 'em all night, don't we? You're going to take them down to the beach?
American marine B
Are you kidding? They're sitting ducks, those two... I got a better idea.
[American marine B walks up to the two Japanese POWs, raises his M1 Garand rifle and shoots both of them dead]
[About Nishi's romancing skills]
There are rumors about his womanizing...But there are no women left to woo.
[addressing his men before the battle]
Men, the time has come to show your true colors. As a member of the Honorable Imperial Army, I trust that you will fight with honor. This island is of utmost importance to Japan. Should the island fall, the enemy will use it as their base to attack our homeland. For the mainland...For our homeland...Until the very last man..Our duty is to stop the enemy right here. Not one of you is allowed to die until you have killed ten enemy soldiers. Do not expect to return home alive. I will always be in front of you. [removing his hat and bowing] Long live the Emperor.