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Letters From Iwo Jima
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R,2hrs 21min
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December 20, 2006
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Warner Bros. Pictures
Synopsis: After bringing the story of the American soldiers who fought in the battle of Iwo Jima to the screen in his film Flags of Our Fathers, Clint Eastwood offers an equally thoughtful portrait of the Japanese forces who held the island for 36 days in this military drama. In 1945, World War II was in its last stages, and U.S. forces were planning to take on the Japanese on a small island known as Iwo Jima. While the island was mostly rock and volcanoes, it was of key strategic value and Japan's leaders ... Full Synopsis
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By John Hartl, Film critic, MSNBC
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"... turns out to be considerably less grim than its subject. For each shocking or despairing moment, [it] comes through with an insight that rewards your patience." Full Review
Perry Seibert
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Time and again, Clint Eastwood's films have returned to the subject of killing. They try to get at the forces that enable someone to take another man's life, and in the best of his films like Unforgiven ... Full Review
Featured Cast
General Kuribayashi, General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
Baron Nishi, Nishi, Baron
Shimizu
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