Letters from Iwo Jima is a 2006 Japanese-language American war film directed and co-produced by Clint Eastwood, starring Ken Watanabe and Kazunari Ninomiya. The film portrays the Battle of Iwo Jima from the perspective of the Japanese soldiers and is a companion piece to Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers, which depicts the same battle from the American viewpoint; the two films were shot back to back. Letters from Iwo Jima is almost entirely in Japanese, despite being produced by American companies DreamWorks Pictures, Malpaso Productions and Amblin Entertainment. After Flags of Our Fathers flopped at the box office, Paramount Pictures sold the U.S. distribution rights to Warner Bros. Pictures. The film was released in Japan on December 9, 2006 and received a limited release in the United States on December 20, 2006 in order to be eligible for consideration for the 79th Academy Awards, for which it received four nominations, including Best Picture and winning Best Sound Editing.
| Director | Clint Eastwood |
| Produced by | Clint Eastwood, Robert Lorenz, Steven Spielberg |
| Screenplay by | Iris Yamashita |
| Story by | Iris Yamashita, Paul Haggis |
| Starring | Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryō Kase, Shidō Nakamura |
| Music | Kyle Eastwood, Michael Stevens |
| Cinematography | Tom Stern |
| Edited by | Joel Cox, Gary D. Roach |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures (United States), Paramount Pictures (International) |
| Released | December 09, 2006 (Japan), December 20, 2006 (United States) |
| Running time | 140 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Japanese |
| Budget | $19 million |
| Box office | $68.7 million |
| Netflix ID | 70058006 |
About Letters from Iwo Jima
The film follows the events at the battle of Iwo Jima during World War II but told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought in the battle.
Achievement of Letters from Iwo Jima
The film was originally titled, Red Sun, Black Sand. The movie was shot in just over a month.
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Latest information about Letters from Iwo Jima updated on July 28 2021.
