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Letters from Iwo Jima

2006 · Movie · 141 min

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Scores

  • IMDb7.8/10as of 2026-04-09
  • Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer91%as of 2024-08-02
  • Rotten Tomatoes average8.2/10as of 2021-10-05
  • Metacritic89/100as of 2025-07-14

What it is

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.

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Genres
War / Drama / History
Original language
Japanese

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