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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. Read more

Starring Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase
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
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
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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

    Rated - 5 stars

    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.

      • A customer from Nottingham UK
      • Posted 27 Feb 2007 19:22

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  • 12 out of 19 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 3 stars

    Nothing new.

    OK film ; nothing particularly surprising as , if seen ' Flags of our Father's ' then you know pretty much what you're in for ( 2 sides to every coin ; but instead of flags as part of the main theme it's ... letters !! ). Obviously , this one is done slightly ' on the cheap ' as Clint used a bit of the same footage as in ' Flags & Dad's ' ( also made cheaper on the production side as same location shots , etc ).

    My only ( and main ) gripe is this stupid ' almost black & white ' appearance ( new ' art house ' approach ,I dare say ). So remember to adjust your colour on the tv set to ' high ' ( much better then : same with ' 300 ' ; so adjust the colour on that one too : all the better for it ).Plus subtitles don't come on automatically , so need to press ' subtitles on ' .

      • Mark McCardle from Cirencester ,England
      • Posted 02 Oct 2007 13:56

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