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Letters from Iwo Jima

Name: Letters from Iwo Jima
Rating: 70

Letters from Iwo Jima is a 2006 American Japanese-language war film directed and co-produced by Clint Eastwood, starring Ken Watanabe and Kazunari Ninomiya. The film portrays the Battle of Iwo Jima from the perspective of the Japanese soldiers and is a companion piece to Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers, which depicts the same battle from the American viewpoint; the two films were shot back to back. Letters from Iwo…

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The year 2006 was far from ideal for Clint Eastwood to release a film that could be perceived as glorifying the US military, given the ongoing carnage in Iraq. His epic drama *Flags of Our Fathers*, dedicated to the US Marines' famous and bloody victory in the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II, faced the risk of being seen as a jingoistic flag-waving spectacle, contradicting the increasing anti-war sentiments w…