Clint Eastwood’s companion piece to Flags of Our Fathers presents a powerful and artistic rendering of the events leading up to the Battle of Iwo Jima.  A sympathetic portrait of the Japanese soldiers who fought to defend the island from U.S. Marine Corps, the film has earned Eastwood universal praise for de-mythifying the often sanctimonious portrayal of war combat while sensitively evoking the experiences of an American foe. First-time Japanese-American screenwriter Iris Yamashita joins us to discuss her adaptation of Tadamichi Kuribayashi’s first hand account of the epochal event.