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Letters from Iwo Jima - Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Shido Nakamura, Clint Eastwood
Threat advisory: Elevated - Significant risk of entertaining activities
Movie propaganda
The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the USA and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.
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Target demographic movie keyword propaganda
- Film true World War II Pacific theatre Tadamichi Kuribayashi Iwo Jima US Marines Japan
Persons of interest
- Ken Watanabe .... General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
- Kazunari Ninomiya .... Saigo
- Shido Nakamura .... Lieutenant Ito
- Tsuyoshi Ihara .... Baron Nishi
- Ryo Kase .... Shimizu
- Yuki Matsuzaki .... Nozaki
- Takumi Bando .... Captain Tanida
- Nobumasa Sakagami .... Admiral Ohsugi
- Takashi Yamaguchi .... Kashiwara
- Nae Yuuki .... Hanako
- Lucas Elliott .... Sam
- Sonny Saito .... Medic Endo
- Jonathan Oliver Sessler .... Adams
- Dennis Y Takeda .... Miura
- Iris Yamashita .... Storywriter
- Iris Yamashita .... Screenwriter
- Paul Haggis .... Storywriter
- Tadamichi Kuribayashi .... Author: Picture letters from Commander in Chief
- Tsuyoko Yoshido .... Editor: Picture letters from Commander in Chief
- Clint Eastwood .... Director
Cinematic intelligence sources
- Letters from Iwo Jima official movie sites:
- Letters from Iwo Jima film production notes
- Letters from Iwo Jima QuickTime movie trailers
- Awards and film festivals:
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS - Oscars) 2007: Won: Sound editing; Nominated: Directing, Best picture, Original screenplay
- Berlin International Film Festival 2006: In competition
- Hollywood Foreign Press Association (Golden Globes) 2006: Nominated: Best Foreign Language Film, Best Director - Motion Picture (Clint Eastwood)
- National Board of Review, USA 2006: Won: Best Film, Top Ten Film
- See also Flags of our fathers, Windtalkers
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Intelligence analyst
Special Agent Matti
Theatrical report
Letters from Iwo Jima shows that war sucks and that anyone who starts a war sucks and that the people who start wars are usually not the ones who die in them.
The true war movie Letters from Iwo Jima is directed by Clint Eastwood and stars Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Shido Nakamura.
Government security censorship classification
MA 15+ (Strong war violence and themes)
Surveillance time
140 minutes (2:20 hours)
Not for public release in Australia before date
Film: 22 February 2007
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