Clint Eastwood to attack Japan (from wheelchair?)

[JustInJapan]

whining? yeah whatever, theres a lot more this Bataan survivor wants people to see, well shit, Japan to see!

how the hell do you call this guy a whiner?
Speak not over your tongue!

[Mulboyne]

NAM: From Web Programmer to Oscar contender with 'Letters from Iwo Jima.'

The story just keeps getting better - a web programmer originally from Missouri pens a screenplay about Japan on the eve of World War II, wins an award, and gets summoned to meet with one of Hollywood's most powerful screenwriters. In a Warner Brothers office during their second meeting, Iris Yamashita listened in disbelief as Paul Haggis ("Crash" 2004) offered her the opportunity to work on a feature length project later titled "Letters from Iwo Jima," the Japanese language companion film to Clint Eastwood's "Flags of Our Father." It was the first major project for Yamashita, a Shin Nisei, so she waited for a contract before quitting her day job. In "Letters," Yamashita's story about Japanese troops on the black sand island gives a voice to characters usually relegated to stock silent roles. In her world, the warriors of war are also loving fathers and sons. Then early one morning in January, Yamashita received news that she was nominated for an Academy Award...more...

[Greji]

NAM: From Web Programmer to Oscar contender with 'Letters from Iwo Jima.'

They call her a "shin nisei"? I've worked with around and for, nisei's for a good portion of my life and that's first time I have ever heard that term. Any ideas what it means? I am assuming it is new, if not just a mistake by the writer trying to get Japanesey.

[Mulboyne]

Here's a forceful response to the film from the NBR Forums.

That response was written by Lester Tenney who is the subject of this NYT piece:
Long March to an Apology