- General Tadamichi Kuribayashi: If our children can live safely for one more day it would be worth the one more day that we defend this island.
- Baron Nishi: [reading the letter from the mother of Sam, the dead marine] Remember what I said to you: always do what's right because it is right.
- General Tadamichi Kuribayashi: [Tadamichi turns up in time to stop Ito from beheading Saigo and Shimizu] I don't want you to kill my soldiers needlessly. Put down your sword. Put it down!
- [Ito sheathes his katana and salutes]
- General Tadamichi Kuribayashi: What's going on here?
- Lieutenant Ito: These men ran from Suribachi.
- General Tadamichi Kuribayashi: Lt. Ito, I gave the order that all survivors retreat to the north caves.
- Lieutenant Ito: [embarrassed] I am very sorry, General. It's just... Suribachi... has fallen.
- [Tadamichi rushes to a cave opening and sees Mount Suribachi from a distance, with a U.S flag raised on the summit]
- General Tadamichi Kuribayashi: For our homeland. Until the very last man. Our duty is to stop the enemy right here. Do not expect to return home alive.
- Lieutenant Okubo: Shall I finish him off?
- Baron Nishi: No. Treat him.
- Lieutenant Okubo: But, sir...
- Baron Nishi: Okubo, you would expect the same, wouldn't you? Endo, treat him.
- Medic Endo: We are low on morphine as it is.
- Shimizu: Sir, the Americans would not treat a wounded Japanese soldier.
- Baron Nishi: Son, have you ever met one? Treat him.
- [Shimizu is lost for words]
- Baron Nishi: This is a picture of me and my horse champion.
- Sam: [Sam smiles and chuckles] No kidding. Oklahoma, it's where I'm from.
- Baron Nishi: Takeichi.
- Sam: Sam.
- [Both men shake hands]
- General Tadamichi Kuribayashi: The United States is the *last* country in the world that Japan should fight.
- Shimizu: I don't know anything about the enemy. I thought all Americans were cowards. I was taught they were savages.
- General Tadamichi Kuribayashi: I promised myself to fight until death for my family, but the thought of family makes it difficult to keep that promise.
- Saigo: [a letter to Saigo's wife] We soldiers dig. We dig all day. This is the hole that we will fight and die in. Am I digging my own grave?
- [door opens]
- Lead Woman: Congratulations! Your husband is going to war.
- Saigo: Thank you very much. I'm happy to serve the country.
- Lead Woman: [Lead Woman stares piercingly at Saigo and steps forward] Prayers for your eternal success at arms.
- Hanako: [desperately] I beg of you! We have only each other.
- Lead Woman: [Lead Woman shouts - scolding Hanako angrily] Mrs. Saigo! *This* is not the time.
- [firmly]
- Lead Woman: We have all sent our husbands and sons to war. We all have to do our part.
- [looking down at Hanako's baby bump, and then... sympathetically]
- Lead Woman: At least you'll have a little one to carry on your name.
- [Lead Woman bows with authority and walks away]
- Child choir singing: On the waves of the Pacific down south from the Imperial City, a small lonely island floats. The fate of our Imperial country lies in the hands of this island - Iwo Jima As long as we stand We shall feel safe, as the imperial land shall forever be at peace. We shall fight with pride and honor at any price Our proud island - Iwo Jima
- General Tadamichi Kuribayashi: We will build those underground fortifications. And fight till the end.
- Lt. Colonel Oiso: We will make a run for Motoyama. There is no cover for 2 kilometers, it will be every man for himself. See you on the other side, if not on this earth, then in the next world.