Kazunari Ninomiya

At one point in the movie, he says, "The Imperial Headquarters is deceiving not just the people, but us as well." He's super hopeful.

Kazunari Ninomiya plays PFC Saigo, a conscripted baker who just wants to survive long enough to meet his newborn daughter.

Tastebuds, I ask you this.

Letters from Iwo Jima sets these two characters above the rest of the ensemble.

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Um, but he is a perfect casting a- because he's this...

He's able to pull off this whole, like, "I am a very serious general, uh, but also I do have some other thoughts about everything, about how we should win, how we should lose, uh, our treatment to Japan and by Japan." But then the casting of Kazunari Ninomiya is-

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Yeah, go ahead and summarize the not much plot.

An unnamed Japanese commuter who is played by Kazunari Ninomiya enters the subway while dealing with his girlfriend informing him over the phone that she is pregnant, you know, implying it's by him.

He boards the subway and witnesses a woman with a crying baby being berated by a fellow passenger because of the noise.

Upon arriving at his station, he discovers that he is trapped in a repeating loop of the underground walkway.