“How would you feel if America and Japan went to war?” – Officer's wife, Letters from Iwo Jima ... Movie Quotes Database

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A scene from Letters from Iwo Jima 2006

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.

In this scene

Kuribayashi Ken Watanabe

Officer Mark Moses

Officer's wife Roxanne Hart

More from Letters from Iwo Jima

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