Directed by:
Clint EastwoodScreenplay:
Iris YamashitaCinematography:
Tom SternCast:
Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryō Kase, Shidō Nakamura, Takumi Bando, Yuki Matsuzaki, Takashi Yamaguchi, Nae Tazawa, Lucas Elliot Eberl (more)VOD (1)
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In an effort to explore an event that continues to resonate with both cultures, Clint Eastwood was haunted by the sense that making only one film, Flags of Our Fathers, would be telling only half the story. With this unprecedented dual film project, shot back-to-back to be released in sequence, Eastwood seeks to reveal the battle of Iwo Jima - and, by implication, the war in the Pacific - as a clash not only of arms but of cultures. Sixty-one years ago, US and Japanese armies met on Iwo Jima. Decades later, several hundred letters are unearthed from that stark island's soil. The letters give faces and voices to the men who fought there, as well as the extraordinary general who led them. The Japanese soldiers are sent to Iwo Jima knowing that in all probability they will not come back. Among them are Saigo (Kazunari Ninomiya), a baker who wants only to live to see the face of his newborn daughter; Baron Nishi (Tsuyoshi Ihara), an Olympic equestrian champion known around the world for his skill and his honor; Shimizu (Ryo Kase), a young former military policeman whose idealism has not yet been tested by war; and Lieutenant Ito (Shidou Nakamura), a strict military man who would rather accept suicide than surrender. (Warner Bros. AU)
(more)Awards
- Winner
- Nominations
Academy Awards
- 2007 - Best Sound Editing
- 2007 - Best Motion Picture of the Year
- 2007 - Clint Eastwood (Best Achievement in Directing)
- 2007 - Iris Yamashita, Paul Haggis (Best Original Screenplay)
Golden Globes
- 2007 - Best Motion Picture – Foreign Language
- 2007 - Clint Eastwood (Best Director)
Critics Choice Awards
- 2007 - Best Foreign Language Film
- 2007 - Best Picture
- 2007 - Clint Eastwood (Best Director)
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
- 2006 - Best Film
- 2006 - Clint Eastwood (Best Director)
- 2006 - Tom Stern (Best Cinematography)
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
- 2006 - Clint Eastwood (Best Director)
The Saturn Awards
- 2011 - Best DVD Movie Collection
- 2007 - Best International Film
Berlinale (Berlin International Film Festival)
- 2007 - Clint Eastwood (Golden Bear for Best Film)