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Letters from Iwo Jima
2006
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. Read more
| Starring | Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase |
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| Director | Clint Eastwood |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Audio Descriptive |
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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.
| Starring | Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase, Shido Nakamura, Hiroshi Watanabe, Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, Adam Beach, John Benjamin Hickey, John Slattery, Barry Pepper, Jamie Bell, Paul Walker, Robert Patrick, Joseph Cros |
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| Director | Clint Eastwood |
| Studio | WARNER BROS |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 20 mins Blu-ray: 2 hrs 15 mins HD DVD: 2 hrs 15 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Audio Descriptive |
| Language | English, Japanese, English Audio Description |
| Released | DVD: 09 Jul 2007 Blu-ray: 09 Jul 2007 HD DVD: 09 Jul 2007 Production year: 2006 |
| Format | DVD |
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You don't have to have seen (or enjoyed!) Flags of Our Fathers to appreciate Clint Eastwood's companion piece, a bold reverse angle on the battle of Iwo Jima, this time from the Japanese... read more »
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96 out of 101 people found this review helpful
Deeply Moving
This film is over two hours long, but passed by in what seemed like ten minutes,
A truly amazing and deeply moving cinema experience not to be missed by anyone with just the slightest interest in events from ww2.
You feel like you are there on the island suffering every emotion and fear with the brilliant cast of actors,
How this film missed out on a Oscar to the most over rated film of all time The Departed will remain a mystery to me. -
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4 out of 5 people found this review helpful
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No Thanks
I love a good war film, but this was certainly not my cup of tea. Could not get to grips with the Narration over the top so ended up turning it off
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Clint Eastwood revisits familiar territory with LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA, a companion piece to his critically-acclaimed World War II drama FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS. Where the two films differ is in their version of events; FLAGS... is told from a predominantly American point-of-view, whereas LETTERS... ...
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