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Letters from Iwo Jima
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.
2006 · Directed by Clint Eastwood · 141 min · Action · Drama · War · 10 frames
Tagline
The battle of Iwo Jima seen through the eyes of the Japanese soldiers.
Crew
- Screenplay: Iris Yamashita
- Cinematography: Tom Stern
- Edited by: Joel Cox
- Music: Michael Stevens, Kyle Eastwood
- Production design: James J. Murakami, Henry Bumstead
- Produced by: Robert Lorenz, Steven Spielberg, Paul Haggis, Clint Eastwood
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
- Takumi Bando as Captain Tanida
- Yuki Matsuzaki as Private Nozaki
- Takashi Yamaguchi as Kashiwara
- Eijiro Ozaki as Lieutenant Okubo
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English, Japanese
- Studios: Warner Bros. Pictures, DreamWorks Pictures, Malpaso Productions, Amblin Entertainment
- Budget: $19,000,000
- Box office: $68,673,228
- Themes: dying and death, based on novel or book, world war ii, cave, based on true story, pacific war, iwo jima, pacific theater, anti war, japanese army
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