1 post tagged “pacific”
Yesterday I finally went to watch 'Letters from Iwo Jima'. I wasn't expecting that much from Nino, I mean, I though he would just have a few scenes, or that his parts would be equal to the rest of the cast. Still Ken Watanabe is a master of performance, he's really one of the best Japanese actors, someone Nino can look up to; but the fact is that Nino really grows strong in this movie. You think you're gonna see the same Ninomiyah from past dramas, but he's not, he just fools the audience by impersonating that poor baker that has been dragged into this war, desperate, situation, but as the movie goes, you get to see how much is he suffering despite of his cheerful way to speak to the others. Nino's not growing far from the rest of his Arashi mates tho, they all growing together, and that's really hard to find in a boyband. I guess that despite we all think that Johnny Kitagawa is a perv or someone really annoying, he does know what he does when he takes juniors into his company and teaches them the performance arts.
About the movie, is something we should all watch. I trully recommend it. There are loads of films about the 2nd World War, the European battle field, the Americans deciding whether to go or not to that European War... whatever, but there are just a few telling us about what happened in the Pacific battle field, and less telling us how the Japanese were feeling about it. We always get to see the Japanese as the demons of the East, but we don't know anything about the causes of their part of the war, and how the civils were feeling about it. I found it a very reflexive movie, and Clint Eastwood did know how to show us that.
It's just a shame he couldn't accept any foreign awards candidatures, but well, Nino's fans and anyone who watches this movie will apreciate for sure his work. I hope he gets a new movie rol soon, his career could take an interesting turn from this point. Also, MatsuJun, I'm really awaiting for his new drama 'Bambino', because his acting in Hana Yori Dango was really great, he really portrays that Domyouji's rude attitude.
Well, it's not that I don't care about Sho-chan, Ohno-san and Aiba-chan, but they will have their time too. ;P
