Shidô Nakamura credited as playing...
Lieutenant Ito
- 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]