“The battle of Iwo Jima seen through the eyes of the Japanese soldiers.”
The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.
Ken Watanabe
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
Kazunari Ninomiya
Private Saigo
Tsuyoshi Ihara
Colonel Baron Nishi
Ryo Kase
Private Shimizu
Shido Nakamura
Lieutenant Ito
Hiroshi Watanabe
Lieutenant Fujita
Takumi Bando
Captain Tanida
Yuki Matsuzaki
Private Nozaki
Takashi Yamaguchi
Kashiwara
Eijiro Ozaki
Lieutenant Okubo
Letters from Iwo Jima is a action, drama, war film released in 2006 exploring themes of dying and death, world war ii, cave, based on true story, pacific war, iwo jima. Directed by Clint Eastwood, it stars Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara. The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.
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