Toho Company
Directed by Kihachi Okamoto
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, AnimEigo)
Account of the famous WWII battle for the Pacific island from the Japanese point of view is a long, tedious affair. The first hour or so is a choppy narrative with a large number of military types planning for the battle. They make a critical mistake and withdraw some troops, leaving the island severely over matched by the Americans. Those remaining do their best, but as the battle rages on they take up guerrilla warfare and hide in caves. This leads to a "war of attrition" with a high casualty rate. The plot descends into endless scenes of bloody soldiers and civilians dying in horrible ways, either to the enemy or by their own hand as suicide seems to be the choice of many.
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