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"Letters from Iwo Jima" is a 2006 film directed by Clint Eastwood that tells the story of the Battle of Iwo Jima from the perspective of Japanese soldiers. The film is notable for presenting a major World War II battle through the viewpoint of the defeated side, offering audiences a humanized portrait of combatants on the Japanese side of the conflict.
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7.5The 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.
Released: 2006-12-09141 minDir: Clint EastwoodAction, Drama, WarBudget: $19.0MBox office: $68.7MPart of: Clint Eastwood's Iwo Jima Collection
Cast
- Ken Watanabe as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
- Kazunari Ninomiya as Private Saigo
- Tsuyoshi Ihara as Colonel Baron Nishi
- Ryo Kase as Private Shimizu
- Shido Nakamura as Lieutenant Ito
- Hiroshi Watanabe as Lieutenant Fujita
Themes
- dying and death
- world war ii
Article
Letters from Iwo Jima is a 2006 American Japanese-language war film directed and co-produced by Clint Eastwood, starring Ken Watanabe and Kazunari Ninomiya. The film portrays the Battle of Iwo Jima from the perspective of the Japanese soldiers and is a companion piece to Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers, which depicts the same battle from the American viewpoint; the two films were shot back to back. Letters from Iwo Jima is almost entirely in Japanese with a few English sequences, despite being co-produced by American companies DreamWorks Pictures, Malpaso Productions and Amblin Entertainment.
Letters from Iwo Jima was released in Japan on December 9, 2006, and received a limited release in the United States on December 20, by Warner Bros. Pictures, in order to be eligible for consideration for the 79th Academy Awards, for which it received four nominations, including Best Picture and winning Best Sound Editing. It was subsequently released in more areas of the United States on January 12, 2007, and was released in most states on January 19. An English-dubbed version of the film premiered on April 7, 2008. Upon release, Letters from Iwo Jima received critical acclaim and grossed $68.7 million at the box office from a $19 million production budget.