Letters from Iwo Jima

Letters from Iwo Jima (硫黄島からの手紙, Iōjima Kara no Tegami) is a 2006 Japanese-language American war drama movie directed by Clint Eastwood and was based on the novel by Tadamichi Kuribayashi. It stars Ken Watanabe, Mark Moses, Roxanne Hart, Luke Eberl, Jeremy Glazer, Yuki Matsuzaki, Eijiro Ozaki, Ryō Kase, Shidō Nakamura, Tsuyoshi Ihara and was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. It won an Academy Award and was nominated for 3 others in 2007.

Letters from Iwo Jima
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Directed byClint Eastwood
Produced by
Screenplay byIris Yamashita
Story by
Based onPicture Letters from Commander in Chief
by Tadamichi Kuribayashi (author)
Tsuyuko Yoshida (editor)
Starring
  • Ken Watanabe
  • Kazunari Ninomiya
  • Tsuyoshi Ihara
  • Ryō Kase
  • Nakamura Shidō II
Music by
  • Kyle Eastwood
  • Michael Stevens
CinematographyTom Stern
Edited by
  • Joel Cox
  • Gary D. Roach
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release date
  • December 9, 2006 (2006-12-09) (Japan)
  • December 20, 2006 (2006-12-20) (United States)
Running time
140 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageJapanese
English
Budget$19 million[2]
Box office$68.7 million[2]

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  1. 'LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA (15). British Board of Film Classification (January 2, 2007). Retrieved October 12, 2015.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Letters from Iwo Jima. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved July 5, 2009.