Letters from Iwo Jima.
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FilmPublisher number: Y14665 | Warner Bros.Distributor: Neutral Bay, NSW : Distributed by Warner Bros. Entertainment Australia Pty Limited, [2007]Copyright date: ©2006Description: 1 DVD-video (approximately 134 min.) : sound, colour ; 12 cmContent type: two-dimensional moving image Media type: video Carrier type: videodiscUniform titles: Letters from Iwo Jima (Motion picture) | Complemented by (work): Flags of our fathers (Motion picture) Subject(s): Kuribayashi, Tadamichi, 1890 or 1891-1945 -- Drama | Japan. Rikugun -- Drama | Iwo Jima, Battle of, Japan, 1945 -- Drama | Letter writing, Japanese -- Drama | World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Japan -- Iwo Jima (Volcano Islands) -- Drama | Iwo Jima (Volcano Islands, Japan) -- DramaGenre/Form: Feature films. | War films. DDC classification: 791.4372 Production credits: Directed by Clint Eastwood ; story by Iris Yamashita & Paul Haggis ; screenplay by Iris Yamashita ; based on the book "Picture letters from Commander in Chief" by Tadamichi Kuribayashi.Cast: Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara.Summary: Sixty-one years ago, the United States and Japanese armies met on Iwo Jima. Decades later, hundreds of letters are unearthed from that stark island's soil. The letters give faces and voices to the men who fought there, as well as the extraordinary general who led them. Leading the defense is Lt. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi. With little defense other than sheer will and the volcanic rock of the island itself, Gen. Kuribayashi's unprecedented tactics transform what was predicted to be a quick and bloody defeat into nearly 40 days of heroic and resourceful combat.
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"The powerful companion to Flags of Our Fathers" -- Container.
Originally released: 2006.
Special features: red sun, black sand: the making of Letters from Iwo Jima ; theatrical trailer.
Directed by Clint Eastwood ; story by Iris Yamashita & Paul Haggis ; screenplay by Iris Yamashita ; based on the book "Picture letters from Commander in Chief" by Tadamichi Kuribayashi.
Rating: MA15+.
Region 4.
Languages: Japanese, English Audio Descriptive Service. Subtitles: English, Arabic, Dutch, Greek, Hebrew, Icelandic, Portuguese.
Sixty-one years ago, the United States and Japanese armies met on Iwo Jima. Decades later, hundreds of letters are unearthed from that stark island's soil. The letters give faces and voices to the men who fought there, as well as the extraordinary general who led them. Leading the defense is Lt. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi. With little defense other than sheer will and the volcanic rock of the island itself, Gen. Kuribayashi's unprecedented tactics transform what was predicted to be a quick and bloody defeat into nearly 40 days of heroic and resourceful combat.
Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara.
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