Lieutenant Ito It was your duty to hold your position until death, you should have died with your fellow troop members. You are a disgrace.
Played by Shido Nakamura 
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) · 48 quotes
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) · 48 quotes
Tied for 2nd most-quoted character in Letters from Iwo Jima (2006): in 6 of its 48 quotes
A line from Lieutenant ItoI won't go back, I've had enough of cave fighting. You men are now under command of Lieutenant Colonel Nishi. [Strapping explosive to himself] I'll throw myself under a tank, I'll destroy one of their machines!
More lines from Lieutenant Ito
4 quotes Lieutenant Ito Lieutenant Ito Don't hide here like rats, come out of your caves and attack!
Lieutenant Ito We will take back Suribachi, with or without Kuribayashi.
Lieutenant Ito [Waiting in vain for the American tanks to run over him]
Where are you, American tanks? Come and get me!
Scenes with Lieutenant Ito
1 scene
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?
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 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]
