Letters from Iwo Jima (2007) - Movie Details - Cast & Crew, Photos & Trailer

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A Warner Bros. Pictures Release
Letters from Iwo Jima (2007)
Also known as Lamps Before the Wind; Red Sun, Black Sand

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Year of U.S. Release: 2007

Starring: Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase, Shido Nakamura, Yuki Matsuzaki, Hiroshi Watanabe, Takumi Bando, Nobumasa Sakagami, Takashi Yamaguchi, Nae Yuuki.

Director: Clint Eastwood

Screenwriter(s): Iris Yamashita, Paul Haggis

Producer(s): Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg, Robert Lorenz

Ex. Producer(s): Paul Haggis

Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures

Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Drama, War

U.S. Release Date: January 12, 2007 (Limited)

Rated

for graphic war violence.

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Logline:

The story of the Battle of Iwo Jima, which took place in the winter of 1945, from the Japanese perspective.

Plot Summary:

Sixty-one years ago, U.S. and Japanese armies met on Iwo Jima. Decades later, several hundred letters are unearthed from that stark island's soil. The letters give faces and voices to the men who fought there, as well as the extraordinary general who led them, Tadamichi Kuribayashi (Ken Watanabe). With little defense other than sheer will and the volcanic rock of the island itself, Gen. Kuribayashi's unprecedented tactics transform what was predicted to be a quick and bloody defeat into nearly 40 days of heroic and resourceful combat. In an effort to explore an event that continues to resonate with both cultures, Clint Eastwood was haunted by the sense that making only one film, ''Flags of Our Fathers'', would be telling only half the story. With this unprecedented dual film project, shot back-to-back to be released in sequence, Eastwood seeks to reveal the battle of Iwo Jima—and, by implication, the war in the Pacific—as a clash not only of arms but of cultures.

Additional Notes:

This is a companion film to Eastwood's ''Flags of Our Fathers''.

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