Letters from Iwo Jima

Year:

2007

Duration:

141 min

Genres:

Drama | History | War

IMDB rate:

8

Director:

Clint Eastwood

Awards:

Won Oscar. Another 28 wins & 22 nominations

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 2007-02-02

Filming Locations: Iwo Jima, Japan

Earnings

Budget: $19,000,000

Opening Weekend: $122,548 (USA) (24 December 2006)

Gross: $13,753,931 (USA) (22 April 2007)

Cast

Actor

Character

Kazunari Ninomiya

Letters from Iwo Jima

Evan Ellingson

Letters from Iwo Jima

Ken Watanabe

General Kuribayashi

Tsuyoshi Ihara

Baron Nishi

Ryô Kase

Shimizu

Shidô Nakamura

Lieutenant Ito

Hiroshi Watanabe

Lieutenant Fujita

Takumi Bando

Captain Tanida

Yuki Matsuzaki

Nozaki

Takashi Yamaguchi

Kashiwara

Eijiro Ozaki

Lieutenant Okubo

Nae

Hanako

Nobumasa Sakagami

Admiral Ohsugi

Lucas Elliot Eberl

Sam

Sonny Saito

Medic Endo

Steve Santa Sekiyoshi

Kanda

Hiro Abe

Lt. Colonel Oiso

Toshiya Agata

Captain Iwasaki

Yoshi Ishii

Private Yamazaki

Toshi Toda

Colonel Adachi

Ken Kensei

Maj. General Hayashi

Ikuma Ando

Ozawa

Akiko Shima

Lead Woman

Masashi Nagadoi

Admiral Ichimaru

Mark Moses

American Officer

Roxanne Hart

Officer's Wife

Yoshio Iizuka

Tired Soldier

Mitsu

Suicide Soldier

Takuji Kuramoto

Ono

Koji Wada

Hashimoto

Yoshi Tomo Kaneda

Japanese Soldier #1

Shoji Hattori

Japanese Soldier #2

Mark Tadashi Takahashi

Japanese Soldier #3

Mitsuyuki Oishi

Japanese Soldier #4

Kazuyuki Morosawa

Ito's Guard

Masayuki Yonezawa

Ito's Soldier

Hiroshi Tom Tanaka

Hopeless Soldier

Mathew Botuchis

American Marine

Yukari Black

Mother

Daisuke Nagashima

Prisoner

Kirk Enochs

Marine Officer

Ryan Kelley

Marine #2

Jonathan Oliver Sessler

Marine #3

Michael Lawson

Marine #4

Taishi Mizuno

Cave Soldier #1

Daisuke Tsuji

Cave Soldier #2

Yoshi Ando

Excavator #1

Yutaka Takeuchi

Excavator #2

Tsuguo Mizuno

Lead Excavator

Mark Ofuji

Kuribayashi's Guard

Hallock Beals

Marine at Clearing

Ryan Carnes

Marine at Clearing

Jeremy Glazer

Marine Lieutenant

Ryoya Katsuyama

Boy

Masashi Odate

Cook

London Kim

Okubo's Soldier

Dick 'Skip' Evans

Pilot

Wanliss E. Armstrong

Pilot

Rio Ahn

Wounded Japanese Soldier

Did you know?

Trivia

Ken Watanabe read actual letters sent by Imperial Japanese Army Gen. Tadamichi Kuribayashi to his family from Iwo Jima while preparing for his role.

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The only cast member to be in both this film and its companion piece, Flags of Our Fathers (2006), appears in the flamethrowing image of Chuck Lindberg (played by Alessandro Mastrobuono). He advances on a bunker with a flamethrower. Individual members of the casts of both films have met, though never officially presented together, as there are commonalities between the casts in the acting community.

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The story of Lt. Ito strapping mines to himself and lying among corpses to attack a tank is based on the real-life story of Satoru Omagiri, as told in "The Rising Sun" by John Toland.

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Goofs

In the tunnel battle to defend Mt Suribachi, when the Japanese soldier looks up the cave opening and is about to get set alight by the Marine's flamethrower, it is clearly visible that the uniform has been wetted with the fireproof grease, but a few moments before that, his uniform was completely dry.

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The world map seen in the Japanese command center on Iwo Jima does not demarcate the then British colony of Newfoundland, including it a part of Canada instead. Newfoundland did not join Canada until 1949.

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The bottle of Johnnie Walker appears to have a screw cap made of aluminum. At that time liquor bottles had a cork stopper.

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Quotes

General Tadamichi Kuribayashi: You are quite a soldier

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Saigo: [a letter to Saigo's wife] We soldiers dig. We dig all day. This is the hole that we will fight and die in. Am I digging my own grave?

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General Tadamichi Kuribayashi: If our children can live safely for one more day it would be worth the one more day that we defend this island.

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Faq

Q

How much sex, violence, and profanity are in this movie?

A

For detailed information about the amounts and types of (a) sex and nudity, (b) violence and gore, (c) profanity, (d) alcohol, drugs, and smoking, and (e) frightening and intense scenes in this movie, consult the IMDb Parents Guide for this movie. The Parents Guide for Letters from Iwo Jima can be found here.

Q

A Note Regarding Spoilers

A

The following FAQ entries may contain spoilers. Only the biggest ones (if any) will be covered with spoiler tags. Spoiler tags have been used sparingly in order to make the page more readable.

Q

Was "Letters from Iwo Jima" actually filmed on Iwo Jima?

A

It was filmed mostly in Barstow and Bakersfield in California. A skeleton crew was allowed only one day to make on-location shots on Iwo Jima, and that was only after being given special permission from the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, because more than 10,000 missing Japanese soldiers still rest under the soil.

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