Letters from Iwo Jima is a 2006 war film directed and co-produced by Clint Eastwood, and 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, but was produced by American companies Warner Brothers, DreamWorks, Malpaso Productions, and Amblin Entertainment. After the box office failure of Flags of Our... Fathers, DreamWorks sold the United States distribution rights to Warner Brothers, who had the international rights. Letters from Iwo Jima was released in Japan on December 9, 2006 and received a limited release in the United States on December 20, 2006 in order to be eligible for consideration for the 79th Academy Awards. It was subsequently released in more areas of the U.S. on January 12, 2007, and was released in most states on January 19. An English-dubbed version of the film premiered on April 7, 2008.
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| Release date: | December 9, 2006 |
| Directed by: | Clint Eastwood |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 142 Minutes |
| Producer: | Steven Spielberg, Robert Lorenz, Clint Eastwood |
| Editor: | Joel Cox, Gary D. Roach |
| Music by: | Kyle Eastwood, Michael Stevens |
| Cinematography: | Tom Stern |
| Screenplay by: | Iris Yamashita, Paul Haggis |
| Estimated budget: | $19,000,000 |
| Adapted from: | So Sad To Fall In Battle: An Account of War |
| Genre: | Action |