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Letters from Iwo Jima
Directed by
Clint Eastwood
R
2006
2h 21m
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7.8
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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.
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Cast of Letters from Iwo Jima
Ken Watanabe
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
Kazunari Ninomiya
Private Saigo
Tsuyoshi Ihara
Colonel Baron Nishi
Ryo Kase
Private Shimizu
Shido Nakamura
Lieutenant Ito
Hiroshi Watanabe
Lieutenant Fujita
Takumi Bando
Captain Tanida
Yuki Matsuzaki
Private Nozaki
Takashi Yamaguchi
Kashiwara
Eijiro Ozaki
Lieutenant Okubo
Nae Yuuki
Hanako
Nobumasa Sakagami
Admiral Ohsugi
Luke Eberl
Sam
Sonny Saito
Medic Endo
Steve Santa Sekiyoshi
Kanda
Hiro Abe
Lt. Colonel Oiso
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
Ryan Carnes
Marine at Clearing
Ryan Kelley
Marine #2
Clint Eastwood
Director / Producer
Iris Yamashita
Writer
Paul Haggis
Writer / Producer
Robert Lorenz
Producer
Steven Spielberg
Producer
Letters from Iwo Jima Ratings & Reviews
UGO
Brian Tallerico
Instead of showing us the differences between the three men, Eastwood chooses to illustrate how much they were alike and, more importantly, how much they resemble you and me.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Indirectly but cogently comment on our experiences of other movies. Having Japanese soldiers as heroes allows us to reconsider the didacticism we've been handed in the past.
Houston Chronicle
Amy Biancolli
Where Flags heaved its characters through war and psychic trauma without first allowing us all to get acquainted, Letters takes such care with its protagonists that they awaken and descend from the screen.
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
Letters is a work of whetted craft and judgment, tempered by Eastwood's years of life, moviemaking and the potent tango of the two. It is the work of a mature filmmaker willing to entertain the true power of the cinema.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
The humanistic approach makes Eastwood's movie a war story for the ages.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Eloquent, bloody, and daringly simple, the movie examines notions of wartime glory as closely as Flags of Our Fathers dissected heroism.
RogerEbert.com
Roger Ebert
In both his films, Eastwood empathizes with the 'expendable' soldier on the ground, the 'poor bastard' who is only a pawn in a war conceived by generals and politicians, some of whom have never come anywhere near a battlefield or a combat zone.
Dallas Morning News
Chris Vognar
If Flags of Our Fathers is about heroism -- why we need it, how we create it -- then Letters From Iwo Jima is about honor, its importance, and its folly.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
It skillfully avoids the usual war movie clichés while providing multiple points of entry.
Detroit News
Tom Long
Watanabe is appropriately noble and regal, if a bit stiff at times; but it is Ninomiya's grunt soldier who gives the film its soul. Alternately philosophical, humorous, terrified and crafty, he is everyman trying to survive hell.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Gary Thompson
Side by side, though, Eastwood's movies are a sobering marvel: the massive military effort, suffering and sacrifice, the extremes of human behavior that war produces.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
In washed-out tones of brown and khaki, mimicking the colors of the troops' uniforms (blood, used sparingly, is startlingly crimson, seeming to sear a hole in the screen), the film plays out in a mood of resignation and control.
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
In the last half-hour, the story, like the Japanese, loses its way; lacking any clear-cut goals except survival, the film becomes repetitive. Letters From Iwo Jima is a necessary movie; too bad it's not a great movie.
Arizona Republic
Bill Muller
[This] absorbing and thoughtful take on the plight of the trapped, desperate and suicidal Japanese troops, outstrips its companion piece. That's not a statement on patriotism; it addresses the nature of Eastwood's approach and basic human nature.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
The subject, the technique and the maturity blend as one.
The New Yorker
David Denby
The project lacks the variety of sensuous pleasures that a great movie has to provide.
San Jose Mercury News
Bruce Newman
This movie manages with great economy to show that soldiers on both sides had far more in common than they thought.
AV Club
Noel Murray
[Director] Eastwood [shows] how people make impossible choices with dreadful repercussions.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
In its emotional simplicity and straightforward narrative punch, Letters also harks back to what was best about those war movies.
Village Voice
Scott Foundas
Eastwood seems less concerned with provocation than with contemplation, of a popular military campaign and its supposed days of glory. The second film completes and deepens the first.
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Letters From Iwo Jima Scene: Ito Confronts Baron Nishi
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Letters From Iwo Jima Scene: Ito Wraps With Handgrenades
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