Letters from Iwo Jima R
The battle of Iwo Jima seen through the eyes of the Japanese soldiers.
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 20 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 1, 2010
- Originally Released: 2006
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Ken Watanabe, Takeshi Yamaguchi, Hiroshi Watanabe, Shido Nakamura & Tsuyosi Ihara | |
Directed by | Clint Eastwood | |
Edited by | Joel Cox & Gary Roach | |
Screenplay by | Iris Yamashita | |
Composition by | Clint Eastwood | |
Produced by | Robert Lorenz | |
Director of Photography: | Tom Stern | |
Executive Production by | Paul Haggis |
Entertainment Reviews:
[P]rofound, magisterial, and gripping....LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA enthralls in the audacity of its simplicity. -- Grade: A
Entertainment Weekly
5 stars out of 5 -- Directed with fluency and grace, LETTERS...illuminates a desperately dark episode with rare insight and conviction.
Uncut
4 stars out of 4 -- Eastwood's film burns into the memory by striving for authentic detail. The result is unique and unforgettable.
Rolling Stone
Rating: 4/5 --
The whole is a more satisfactory entity than Flags of Our Fathers - and the final scene, which has veterans and relatives scouring the tunnels and caves for the buried letters, is a suitably moving coda.
London Evening Standard
You realize how very young many of these men were, and how ill-suited to be turned into killing machines.
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The New York Review of Books
In a larger sense, it's the second, and artistically superior, half of a single epic film that springs from a single act of compassionate imagination...
Wall Street Journal
3 stars out of 5 -- [T]he performances ensure an emotional connection....LETTERS seeks to humanise the other side in a way FLAGS never did...
Total Film
Product Description:
Clint Eastwood's companion piece to FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS is again set during World War II. But in LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA, he looks at the war from the Japanese perspective, using Japanese dialogue. With American forces on their way, General Kuribayashi (Ken Watanabe, THE LAST SAMURAI) arrives on the island to find his troops woefully under-trained and hopelessly outmatched. Japanese pop and television star Kazunari Ninomiya plays Saigo, a young soldier who asks, "Am I digging my own grave'" as he creates trenches. With no hope of reinforcements, these men have little hope of leaving the island alive.
Eastwood and director of photography Tom Stern paint their picture in a palette of taupes and grays. The landscape of the volcanic island is desolate, providing a hellish experience for the stationed soldiers but a stark beauty for the audience. With this bleak setting, LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA is a powerful ode to duty in dire circumstances. General Kuribayashi and Saigo provide the emotional center of the film, giving a glimpse into the minds of both seasoned officers and drafted novices. Eastwood doesn't deal in simple heroes and villains; these characters are sympathetic and real, whether their motives are pride, fear, or loyalty to their country. Though only the Academy-Award-nominated Watanabe is a familiar face to American audiences, each of the actors involved displays his experience working in Japanese film, television, and theater. The battle scenes are breathtaking and brutal, but it's the actors who are the core of the film. The picture has the standard tropes found in any modern war film, like verbal abuse by a superior and battle scenes filled with severed limbs. But Eastwood goes beyond the war-movie boilerplate with this impressive film that deserves every accolade it earns.
Eastwood and director of photography Tom Stern paint their picture in a palette of taupes and grays. The landscape of the volcanic island is desolate, providing a hellish experience for the stationed soldiers but a stark beauty for the audience. With this bleak setting, LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA is a powerful ode to duty in dire circumstances. General Kuribayashi and Saigo provide the emotional center of the film, giving a glimpse into the minds of both seasoned officers and drafted novices. Eastwood doesn't deal in simple heroes and villains; these characters are sympathetic and real, whether their motives are pride, fear, or loyalty to their country. Though only the Academy-Award-nominated Watanabe is a familiar face to American audiences, each of the actors involved displays his experience working in Japanese film, television, and theater. The battle scenes are breathtaking and brutal, but it's the actors who are the core of the film. The picture has the standard tropes found in any modern war film, like verbal abuse by a superior and battle scenes filled with severed limbs. But Eastwood goes beyond the war-movie boilerplate with this impressive film that deserves every accolade it earns.
Keywords:
Death
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True Story
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World War II
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Epic
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Military
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Historical
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Theatrical Release
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Japan
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Soldiers
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 113,182
- UPC: 883929107728
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