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Letters from Iwo Jima

Cast

Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryô Kase View All


Crew

Clint Eastwood (Director), Paul Haggis (Screenplay), Iris Yamashita (Screenplay) View All

Release: Dec. 19th, 2006
Runtime: 2 hours, 21 minutes
The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.
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Holden Pike
Eastwood's companion piece to [i]Flags of Our Fathers[/i] that recreates the WWII battle from the Japanese perspective, it is moving, thoughtful, frightening and poetic - just about everything the other movie wasn't..
TheUsualSuspect
It's one of the best war films ever made. It's not a perfect film, but it is the one that Eastwood wanted to make and it is exactly what the title says..
Holden Pike
A Japanese cast blissfully speaking Japanese is led by international star Ken Watanabe as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi who in the summer of 1945 was given the unenviable task of defending the small island of Iwo Jima about 500 miles south of Tokyo.


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