Letters from Iwo Jima

Dir: Clint Eastwood
Writ: Iris Yamashita, Paul Haggis, based on the book Picture Letters from Commander in Chief by Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Tsuyoko Yoshido

Ken Watanabe – General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
Kazunari Ninomiya – Saigo
Tsuyoshi Ihara – Baron Nishi
Ryo Kase – Shimizu
Shido Nakamura – Lieutenant Ito
Hiroshi Watanabe – Lieutenant Fujita
Takumi Bando – Captain Tanida

I’m not sure what I was really [...]

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