---
title: 'Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Clint Eastwood'
released: '2006-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 141
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'War'
  - 'History'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/letters-from-iwo-jima-2006'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0498380/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)

2006 · 141 min · Drama, War, History · United States


## Synopsis

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 Jima is almost entirely in Japanese with a few English sequences, despite being co-produced by American companies DreamWorks Pictures, Malpaso Productions and Amblin Entertainment.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Clint Eastwood](https://cinepixo.com/people/clint-eastwood)
- **Producer:** [Clint Eastwood](https://cinepixo.com/people/clint-eastwood), [Steven Spielberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/steven-spielberg), [Robert Lorenz](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-lorenz)
- **Screenplay:** [Iris Yamashita](https://cinepixo.com/people/iris-yamashita), [Paul Haggis](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-haggis)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Kyle Eastwood](https://cinepixo.com/people/kyle-eastwood)
- **Director of Photography:** [Tom Stern](https://cinepixo.com/people/tom-stern)
- **Editor:** [Joel Cox](https://cinepixo.com/people/joel-cox)

## Cast

- [Eijiro Ozaki](https://cinepixo.com/people/eijiro-ozaki) as Lieutenant Okubo
- [Jeremy Glazer](https://cinepixo.com/people/jeremy-glazer) as American Marine Lieutenant
- [Ken Watanabe](https://cinepixo.com/people/ken-watanabe) as Tadamichi Kuribayashi
- [Nakamura Shidō II](https://cinepixo.com/people/nakamura-shido-ii) as Lieutenant Ito
- [Ryō Kase](https://cinepixo.com/people/ryo-kase) as Superior Private Shimizu
- [Kazunari Ninomiya](https://cinepixo.com/people/kazunari-ninomiya) as Private First Class Saigo
- [Roxanne Hart](https://cinepixo.com/people/roxanne-hart) as Officer's wife
- [Ryan Carnes](https://cinepixo.com/people/ryan-carnes)
- [Ryan Kelley](https://cinepixo.com/people/ryan-kelley)
- [Mathew Botuchis](https://cinepixo.com/people/mathew-botuchis)
- [Tsuyoshi Ihara](https://cinepixo.com/people/tsuyoshi-ihara) as Takeichi Nishi
- [Mark Moses](https://cinepixo.com/people/mark-moses) as American officer
- [Yuki Matsuzaki](https://cinepixo.com/people/yuki-matsuzaki) as Private First Class Nozaki
- [Luke Eberl](https://cinepixo.com/people/luke-eberl) as Sam
- [Noriaki Bunasawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/noriaki-bunasawa) as Japanese Journalist

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Official site: https://www.warnerbros.com/movies/letters-iwo-jima
Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/letters-from-iwo-jima-2006
Film facts: Wikidata (Q275187); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.