Letters from Iwo Jima

Letters from Iwo Jima (硫黄島からの手紙, Iōjima Kara no Tegami) is a 2006 war film directed and co-produced by Clint Eastwood, and 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 entir... More

Initial release date:

  • Dec 9, 2006

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Rating:

R (USA)

Runtime:

  • 2 h 22 min

Also known as:

  • Letters from Iwo Jima

Film

Directed by

Clint Eastwood

Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American film actor, director, producer, composer and politician. Eastwood first came to prominence as a supporting cast member in the TV series Rawhide (1959–1965). He rose to fame for playing the Man with No Name in Sergio Leone's Dollars...

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Release date(s):

Film release region Release Date Film release distribution medium
  • Dec 20, 2006
  • 2006
  • 2007
  • Feb 2, 2007
  • Jun 1, 2010
  • May 22, 2007
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Runtime:

  • 2 h 22 min
  • 2 h 21 min
  • 2 h 20 min
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Estimated budget:

Currency Amount
  • 19,000,000

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Flags of Our Fathers

Flags of Our Fathers is a 2006 American war film directed, co-produced and scored by Clint Eastwood and written by William Broyles, Jr. and Paul... …

Initial release date: Oct 20, 2006
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Awards

Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Foreign Language Film Winners

Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Foreign Language Film Nominees

Appears in ranked lists:

List Rank
  • 71

Metacritic Top Films

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Media

Adapted From

So Sad To Fall In Battle: An Account of War

So Sad To Fall In Battle: An Account of War is a novel written by Kumiko Kakehashi.

"Gyokusai sōshikikan" no Etegami

"Gyokusai sōshikikan" no Etegami is a book written by General Tadamichi Kuribayashi.

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Appears in ranked lists:

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  • 71
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