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Letters from Iwo Jima [DVD] [2006]
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Release Date:06/01/2010
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After bringing the story of the American soldiers who fought in the battle of Iwo Jima to the screen in his film Flags of Our Fathers, Clint Eastwood offers an equally thoughtful portrait of the Japanese forces who held the island for 36 days in this military drama. In 1945, World War II was in its last stages, and U.S. forces were planning to take on the Japanese on a small island known as Iwo Jima. While the island was mostly rock and volcanoes, it was of key strategic value and Japan's leaders saw the island as the final opportunity to prevent an Allied invasion. Lt. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi (Ken Watanabe) was put in charge of the forces on Iwo Jima; Kuribayashi had spent time in the United States and was not eager to take on the American army, but he also understood his opponents in a way his superiors did not, and devised an unusual strategy of digging tunnels and deep foxholes that allowed his troops a tactical advantage over the invading soldiers. While Kuribayashi's strategy alienated some older officers, it impressed Baron Nishi (Tsuyoshi Ihara), the son of a wealthy family who had also studied America firsthand as an athlete at the 1932 Olympics. As Kuribayashi and his men dig in for a battle they are not certain they can win -- and most have been told they will not survive -- their story is told both by watching their actions and through the letters they write home to their loved ones, letters that in many cases would not be delivered until long after they were dead. Among the soldiers manning Japan's last line of defense are Saigo (Kazunari Ninomiya), a baker sent to Iwo Jima only days before his wife was to give birth; Shimizu (Ryo Kase), who was sent to Iwo Jima after washing out in the military police; and Lieutenant Ito (Shidou Nakamura), who has embraced the notion of "Death Before Surrender" with particular ferocity. Filmed in Japanese with a primarily Japanese cast, Letters From Iwo Jima was shot in tandem with Flags of Our Fathers, and the two films were released within two months of one another.~Mark Deming
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Director
- Clint Eastwood
Writer
- Iris Yamashita
Cast
- Ken WatanabeGeneral Kuribayashi
- Kazunari NinomiyaSaigo
- Tsuyoshi IharaNishi, Baron
- Ryo KaseShimizu
- Shidou NakamuraLieutenant Ito
- Hiroshi WatanabeLieutenant Fujita
- Takumi BandoCaptain Tanida
- Yuki MatsuzakiNozaki
- Takashi Yamaguchikashiwara
- Eijiro OzakiLieutenant Okubo
- NaeHanako
- Nobumasa SakagamiAdmiral Ohsugi
- Luke ElliotSam
- Steve Santa SekiyoshiKanda
- Hiro AbeLt. Colonel Oiso
- Toshiya AgataCaptain Iwasaki
- Yoshi IshiiPrivate Yamazaki
- Toshi TodaColonel Adachi
- Ken KenseiMaj. General Hayashi
- Ikuma AndoOzawa
- Akiko ShimaLead Woman
- Mark MosesAmerican Officer
- Roxanne HartOfficer's Wife
- Yoshio IizukaTired Soldier
- Mitsu KurokawaSuicide Soldier
- Takuji KuramotoOno
- Koji WadaHashimoto
- Shoji HattoriJapanese Soldier #2
- Mark Tadashi TakahashiJapanese Soldier #3
- Mitsuyuki OishiJapanese Soldier #4
- Evan EllingsonKid Marine
- Kazuyuki MorosawaIto's Guard
- Masayuki YonezawaIto's Soldier
- Hiroshi Tom TanakaHopeless Soldier
- Mathew BotuchisAmerican Marine
- Yukari BlackMother
- Daisuke NagashimaPrisoner
- Kirk EnochsMarine Officer
- Ryan KelleyMarine #2
- Jonathan Oliver SesslerMarine #3
- Michael LawsonMarine #4
- Taishi MizunoCave Soldier #1
- Daisuke TsujiCave Soldier #2
- Yoshi AndoExcavator #1
- Yutaka TakeuchiExcavator #2
- Tsuguo MizunoLead Excavator
- Mark OfujiKuribayashi's Guard
- Hallock BealsMarine at Clearing
- Ryan CarnesMarine at Clearing
- Jeremy GlazerMarine Lieutenant
- Ryoya KatsuyamaBoy
- Masashi OdateCook
- London KimOkubo's Soldier
- Skip EvansPilots
- Wanliss E. ArmstrongPilots
Crew
- Clint EastwoodProducer
- Robert LorenzProducer
- Steven SpielbergProducer
- Iris YamashitaScreen Story
- Paul HaggisScreen Story
- Tom SternCinematographer
- Kyle EastwoodComposer (Music Score)
- Michael StevensComposer (Music Score)
- Gary D. RoachEditor
- Joel CoxEditor
- Henry BumsteadProduction Designer
- James MurakamiProduction Designer
- Tim MooreCo-producer
- Paul HaggisExecutive Producer
- Deborah HopperCostume Designer
- Gary FettisSet Decorator
- Charles MaynesSound/Sound Designer
- Walt MartinSound/Sound Designer
- David LuckenbachCamera Operator
- Al GotoStunts
- Arnold ChonStunts
- Brian AveryStunts
- Dennis TakedaStunts
- Dustin MeierStunts
- Ilram ChoiStunts
- J. Mark DonaldsonStunts
- McKay StewartStunts
- Richard L. BucherStunts
- Scott LevaStunts
- Simon RheeStunts
- Willie LeongStunts
- Phyllis HuffmanCasting
- Alan Robert MurraySupervising Sound Editor
- Bub AsmanSupervising Sound Editor
- Buddy Van HornStunts Coordinator
- Darren M. PoeLead Compositor
- David PooleSpecial Effects Technician
- Eryn KruegerKey Make-up
- Ferguson ReidSet Medic/First Aid
- Geoffrey MiClatCasting Associate
- Gregg RudloffRe-Recording Mixer
- Jason KingSound Effects Editor
- Jason S. GondekProduction Accountant
- Jessica MeierAssistant Production Coordinator
- John ReitzRe-Recording Mixer
- Kristie Macosko-KriegerPersonal Assistant
- Matt HuffmanCasting Associate
- Mike SextonProperties Master
- Robin HarlanFoley Artist
- Ross DunkerleyChief Lighting Technician
- Scott M. AndersonAssistant Properties
- Steve MannSound Effects Editor
- Steve RileySpecial Effects Supervisor
- Tania McComasDepartment Head Makeup
- Tim MooreUnit Production Manager
- Yumi TakadaCasting Associate
- Zoe HayMakeup
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