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Letters from Iwo Jima 2006 15+ 2h 20m International Movies As tens of thousands of Allied troops push further inland, the Japanese troops defending Iwo Jima during World War II prepare to meet their fate. Letters From Iwo Jima - Movie. The official Facebook page for Letters From Iwo Jima. 'The battle of Iwo Jima seen through the eyes of the Japanese soldiers.' Jun 17, 2015 PDF Picture Letters From the Commander in Chief: Letters From Iwo Jima Full Online.
OSCAR WINNER: Best Sound Nominated for four Academy Awards, including 'Best Picture,' Clint Eastwood's Letters From Iwo Jima tells the untold story of the Japanese soldiers who defended their homeland against invading American forces during World War II. With little defense other than sheer will and the volcanic rock of Iwo Jima itself, the unprecedented tactics of General Tadamichi Kuribayashi (Ken Watanabe) and his men transform what was predicted to be a swift defeat into nearly 40 days of heroic and resourceful combat. Their sacrifices, struggles, courage and compassion live on in the taut, gripping film Rolling Stone calls 'unique and unforgettable.' It is the powerful companion piece to Eastwood's equally compelling, Flags of Our Fathers.
Original Release
12/09/2006
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Cast
Ken Watanabe | General Kuribayashi |
Kazunari Ninomiya | Saigo |
Tsuyoshi Ihara | Baron Nishi |
Ryo Kase | Shimizu |
Hiroshi Watanabe | Lieutenant Fujita |
Eijiro Ozaki | Lieutenant Okubo |
Yuki Matsuzaki | Nozaki |
Hiro Abe | Lt. Colonel Oiso |
Sonny Saito | Medic Endo (as Sonny Seiichi Saito) |
Steve Santa Sekiyoshi | Kanda |
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Iris Yamashita, Paul Haggis, Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Tsuyoko Yoshido
Cast
Ken Watanabe | General Kuribayashi |
Kazunari Ninomiya | Saigo |
Tsuyoshi Ihara | Baron Nishi |
Ryo Kase | Shimizu |
Hiroshi Watanabe | Lieutenant Fujita |
Eijiro Ozaki | Lieutenant Okubo |
Yuki Matsuzaki | Nozaki |
Hiro Abe | Lt. Colonel Oiso |
Sonny Saito | Medic Endo (as Sonny Seiichi Saito) |
Steve Santa Sekiyoshi | Kanda |
Toshiya Agata | Captain Iwasaki |
Toshi Toda | Colonel Adachi |
Ken Kensei | Maj. General Hayashi |
Ikuma Ando | Ozawa |
Akiko Shima | Lead Woman |
Masashi Nagadoi | Admiral Ichimaru |
Mark Moses | American Officer |
Roxanne Hart | Officer's Wife |
Shido Nakamura | Lieutenant Ito (as Shidou Nakamura) |
Luke Eberl |
Producers
Paul Haggis | Executive Producer |
Clint Eastwood | Producer |
Steven Spielberg | Producer |
Paul Haggis | Producer |
Robert Lorenz | Producer |
Tim Moore | Producer |
Editors
Joel Cox, Gary Roach
2007 | Oscar | Best Motion Picture of the Year | Nominated |
2007 | Oscar | Best Achievement in Directing | Nominated |
2007 | Oscar | Best Writing, Original Screenplay | Nominated |
2007 | Oscar | Best Achievement in Sound Editing | Won |
2007 | Golden Globe | Best Director - Motion Picture | Nominated |
2007 | Golden Globe | Best Foreign Language Film | Won |
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78It's a simple establishing shot: a tilt up from the beach where the Allied forces landed to Mount Suribachi, a rocky knob on the southern tip of the island where the Japanese holed up in a network of tunnels and bunkers, and on top of which the famous, iconic image of the raising of an American flag was taken. That classically heroic-looking photo, and the collateral damage from its exploitation as a propaganda tool to sell War Bonds, was the subject of Eastwood's 2006 'Flags of our Fathers,' the companion piece (or other half) of 'Letters From Iwo Jima,' though it doesn't really matter which one you see first.
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The opening moments of 'Letters' have a cosmic zoom-like effect, taking us from the timeless and abstract (stars/sand) into a specific place and time: 'Iwo Jima 2005,' as a title denotes. It was on this barren little sulfuric spec in the Pacific Ocean, only about five miles from one end to the other, that so many people fought and died 60 years ago.
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'Flags of Our Fathers' ended with a similar motion, going from memory-images of surviving Marines frolicking in the surf, to the Stars and Stripes atop Mount Suribachi and the battleships in the harbor, and finally up into the sky (another reason you might think you're looking up rather than down at the start of 'Letters,' which begins with a view in the opposite direction from the close of 'Flags'). The camouflaged artillery that proved so deadly and menacing in 'Flags' are, by the start of 'Letters,' just rusty relics at a war memorial site. Lime wire search. Archeologists explore Suribachi's caves and tunnels, still marveling at how the soldiers ever managed to build them.
And then we're on the beach again, in 1945, as Japanese soldiers prepare for the invasion they know is coming by digging trenches in the sand. It looks like a futile, Sisyphean effort. In a letter to his wife (heard in voiceover) one of the diggers, a puppy-faced former baker named Saigo (Kazunari Ninomiya, in a thoroughly winning performance), writes philosophically: 'This is the hole that we will fight and die in.'
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They might have died a lot sooner if they'd stuck with this ill-conceived sand strategy. When the new commander, General Tadamichi Kuribayashi (the always-commanding Ken Watanabe), arrives at Iwo Jima, he immediately changes plans, ordering men and artillery to dig in on higher ground. These are the preparations for the massive ambush we see in 'Flags of Our Fathers.'