KEN WATANABE as General Kuribayashi

Letters from Iwo Jima

Director: Clint Eastwood

Cast: Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase, Shido Nakamura, Yuki Matsuzaki, Hiroshi Watanabe, Takumi Bando, Nobumasa Sakagami, Takashi Yamaguchi, Nae Yuuki

(Warner Bros. Pictures, 2006) Rated: R

US theatrical release date: 20 December 2006 (Limited release)

[21 December 2006]

by Cynthia Fuchs

PopMatters Film and TV Editor

We Soldiers Dig

Poetic and pained, Letters from Iwo Jima is a war movie about loss and, almost worse, the anticipation of loss.

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