Letters from Iwo Jima | |
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4 Nominations / 1 Win | |
Year | 2006 |
Director | Clint Eastwood |
Writer | Iris Yamashita, Paul Haggis |
Starring | Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara |
79th Academy Awards |
Letters from Iwo Jima is a 2006 American War film directed and co-produced by Clint Eastwood, starring Ken Watanabe and Kazunari Ninomiya. The film is almost entirely in Japanese, although it was produced by American companies Warner Bros. Pictures, DreamWorks Pictures, Malpaso Productions, and Amblin Entertainment.
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Nominations
- Best Director — Clint Eastwood
- Best Original Screenplay — Iris Yamashita, Paul Haggis
- Best Picture — Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg, Robert Lorenz
- Best Sound Editing — Alan Robert Murray, Bub Asman
Plot[]
Sixty-one years ago, U.S. and Japanese armies met on Iwo Jima. Decades later, several hundred letters are unearthed from that stark island's soil. The letters give faces and voices to the men who fought there, as well as the extraordinary general who led them, Tadamichi Kuribayashi. With little defense other than sheer will and the volcanic rock of the island itself, Gen. Kuribayashi's unprecedented tactics transform what was predicted to be a quick and bloody defeat into nearly 40 days of heroic and resourceful combat.
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