Letters from Iwo Jima

Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)

Timing: 2:21 (141 min)

7.467/10
1982

All about film

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Actors and characters

Release date

2006-12-09

Country

United States

Production

Warner Bros. Pictures, Amblin Entertainment, DreamWorks Pictures, Malpaso Productions

Genre

Action, Drama, War

Budget

$19 000 000

Revenue

$68 673 228

Website

https://www.warnerbros.com/movies/letters-iwo-jima

Director

Clint Eastwood

Actors

Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase, Shido Nakamura, Hiroshi Watanabe, Takumi Bando, Yuki Matsuzaki, Takashi Yamaguchi, Eijiro Ozaki
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Scenario

Producer

Clint Eastwood, Paul Haggis, Steven Spielberg, Robert Lorenz

Operator

Tom Stern

Composer

Kyle Eastwood

Artist

Audition

Phyllis Huffman

Editing

Joel Cox
All team (59)

• The film is based on a book compiled from the letters of General Tadamiichi Kuribayashi of the Imperial Japanese Army, who led the defense of Iwo Jima (played by Ken Watanabe in the film).
• Clint Eastwood initially wanted to title the film "Red Sun, Black Sand".
• The film is the Japanese part of a diology, filmed on Iwo Jima at almost the same time; the film crews met and collaborated with each other, but officially only one person appeared in both films.
• While working on the role, Ken Watanabe read all the letters sent from Iwo Jima to his family by General Tadamiichi Kuribayashi of the Imperial Japanese Army.
• A GAZ-69A, produced from 1952 to 1972, was used as the Japanese military vehicle in the filming.
• The film was shot on Iwo Jima itself, as well as in Iceland and California.
• An American light military transport aircraft, the Beech C-45F “Expeditor,” was used in the filming to represent the aircraft on which Japanese General Kuribayashi arrived on the island. It apparently was intended to depict the Kawasaki Ki-56 Japanese transport aircraft.