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Letters from Iwo Jima [Blu-ray]

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Released: 2007-05-22

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Letters from Iwo Jima [Blu-ray] Blu-Ray DVD Cast & Features Cast:
Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase, Shidou Nakamura, Hiroshi Watanabe, Takumi Bando, Yuki Matsuzaki, Takashi Yamaguchi, Eijiro Ozaki, Nae, Nobumasa Sakagami, Luke Elliot, Sonny Saito, Steve Santa Sekiyoshi, Hiro Abe, Toshiya Agata, Yoshi Ishii, Toshi Toda, Ken Kensei, Ikuma Ando, Akiko Shima, Masashi Nagadoi, Mark Moses, Roxanne Hart, Yoshio Iizuka, Mitsu Kurokawa, Takuji Kuramoto, Koji Wada, Akira Kaneda, Shoji Hattori, Mark Tadashi Takahashi, Mitsuyuki Oishi, Evan Ellingson, Kazuyuki Morosawa, Masayuki Yonezawa, Hiroshi Tom Tanaka, Mathew Botuchis, Yukari Black, Daisuke Nagashima, Kirk Enochs, Ryan Kelley, Jonathan Oliver Sessler, Michael Lawson, Taishi Mizuno, Daisuke Tsuji, Yoshi Ando, Yutaka Takeuchi, Tsuguo Mizuno, Mark Ofuji, Hallock Beals, Ryan Carnes, Jeremy Glazer, Ryoya Katsuyama, Masashi Odate, London Kim, Skip Evans, Wanliss E. Armstrong

Director(s): Clint Eastwood

Features:
Red Sun, Black Sand: The making of Letters From Iwo Jima
The Faces of Combat: The cast of Letter From Iwo Jima
Images from the frontlines: The photography of Letters From Iwo Jima
November 2006 world premiere coverage at Budo-kan in Tokyo
November 2006 press conference
Theatrical trailer

Letters from Iwo Jima [Blu-ray] Blu-Ray DVD Details

Video:
2.40:1
Audio:
Dolby Digital w/ sub-woofer channel
Language:
japanese
Subtitles:
English, French, Spanish

Running Time: 140
Genre: Drama
Item Weight: 1
UPC: 085391112884
Product Code: WHV111288BR
Format: Blu-Ray DVD
Year:2006
Studio: Warner Home Video

Letters from Iwo Jima [Blu-ray] Blu-Ray DVD Summary After bringing the story of the American soldiers who fought in the battle of Iwo Jima to the screen in his film Flags of Our Fathers, Clint Eastwood offers an equally thoughtful portrait of the Japanese forces who held the island for 36 days in this military drama.

In 1945, World War II was in its last stages, and U.

S.

forces were planning to take on the Japanese on a small island known as Iwo Jima.

While the island was mostly rock and volcanoes, it was of key strategic value and Japan's leaders saw the island as the final opportunity to prevent an Allied invasion.

Lt.

General Tadamichi Kuribayashi (Ken Watanabe) was put in charge of the forces on Iwo Jima; Kuribayashi had spent time in the United States and was not eager to take on the American army, but he also understood his opponents in a way his superiors did not, and devised an unusual strategy of digging tunnels and deep foxholes that allowed his troops a tactical advantage over the invading soldiers.

While Kuribayashi's strategy alienated some older officers, it impressed Baron Nishi (Tsuyoshi Ihara), the son of a wealthy family who had also studied America firsthand as an athlete at the 1932 Olympics.

As Kuribayashi and his men dig in for a battle they are not certain they can win -- and most have been told they will not survive -- their story is told both by watching their actions and through the letters they write home to their loved ones, letters that in many cases would not be delivered until long after they were dead.

Among the soldiers manning Japan's last line of defense are Saigo (Kazunari Ninomiya), a baker sent to Iwo Jima only days before his wife was to give birth; Shimizu (Ryo Kase), who was sent to Iwo Jima after washing out in the military police; and Lieutenant Ito (Shidou Nakamura), who has embraced the notion of "Death Before Surrender" with particular ferocity.

Filmed in Japanese with a primarily Japanese cast, Letters From Iwo Jima was shot in tandem with Flags of Our Fathers, and the two films were released within two months of one another.