Iwo Jima (/ ˌ iː w oʊ ˈ dʒ iː m ə /, also US: / ˌ iː w ə ˈ-/), known in Japan as Iō Tō (硫黄島, Iō-tō, lit. 'sulfur island'), is one of the Japanese Volcano Islands and lies south of the Bonin Islands.Together with other islands, they form the Ogasawara Archipelago. The highest point of Iwo Jima is Mount Suribachi at 169 m (554 ft) high. Although 1,200 kilometres (750 mi. Battle of Iwo Jima - Wikipedia Saipan Island, Battle Of Iwo Jima, Pearl Harbor. Use Flags of Our Fathers & Letters From Iwo Jima in this World War II History.

Letters From Iwo Jima is the 2006 POV Sequel to Flags of our Fathers, which was also directed by Clint Eastwood, providing a Perspective Flip to Imperial Japan, the antagonists of the first film. It was widely well received and is commonly seen as being even better than its well-received predecessor.

Inspired by the book Picture Letters from the Commander and Chief, a compilation of whimsically illustrated letters sent by the Japanese commander of the Iwo Jima garrison to his family, the film explores the back stories of some of Iwo Jima's doomed defenders (fewer then 1% would ultimately survive) in the form of their last letters home -- letters written but never sent.

• Better to Die Than Be Killed: The 'honourable' way of doing things according to the Empire, which includes ordering the entire battalion to go on a hopeless suicide mission. Many soldiers are clearly unhappy about this. Not that it stops them.
• Body Horror: One man dies sitting upright with half his face gone during an air raid. There are also various limbs lost during the battle itself, people attacked with flamethrowers, blown up at point blank range..
• Combat Pragmatist: Kuribayashi withdraws his men from the beaches to fight from caves and tunnels rather then wasting them in the pointless (but honorable) suicide attacks his subordinates would prefer. Saigo also holds little truck with 'honorable suicide' for various reasons and prefers unconventional tactics (compared to IJA standards) in the field. Needness to say, this doesn't make him too popular with some of his fellow soldiers.
• Continuity Nod: The torture of a captured Marine is a reference to Iggy's death in Flags of our Fathers.
• Cue the Sun: At the end of the battle the sun dawns red over the sea, perhaps symbolising that despite the loss Iwo Jima will always belong to Japan.. or that Japan will always remember her own, wherever they fell, and for whatever cause.
• Dirty Coward: Lieutenant Ito. tries to force his troops to accompany him in a reckless suicide attack, before leaving alone to attempt to take out a tank. Instead he pretends to be dead until the battle's over. And this is after he nearly kills Saito and Shimizu for following orders and retreating.
  • An alternate interpretation was that he was hoping a tank was going to run over the dead men he was lying with. He kept asking where the tanks were, had explosives strapped to his chest, and seemed to go mad when they didn't come.
• Everybody's Dead, Dave: Everyone except Saigo and possibly Lieutenant Ito dies.
• Fatal Family Photo: One soldier often seen looking at his family photographs later commits suicide with a grenade, splashing them with blood.
• A Father to His Men: General 'I will always be right in front of you' Kuribayashi.
• Foregone Conclusion: We already know how the Battle of Iwo Jima ends. The Japanese are also Genre Savvy enough to know that their situation is Unwinnable.
• Hopeless War: You realize the full extent of how hopeless it is for the Japanese when the film shows the American fleet: thousands of ships (including various battleships and carriers), transporting marines in overwhelming numbers and all the air and artillery support they need.
• I Just Shot Marvin in the Face: When Saigo is ordered to defend a destroyed machine gun emplacement with his rifle, he responds by cocking it in his commanding officer's direction. The officer quickly rethinks the order.
• Imperial Japan: The film's protagonists.
• Just Like Us: Shimizu and the others discover this after they talk with a captured American soldier and read a letter from his mother.
• Meaningful Name: Saigo's name can mean 'last', as in the last one left alive.
  • The captured American soldier whose wounds they treat is called Sam.
• Last Stand: A given. Not that there was anywhere to retreat to.
• Minion with an F In Evil: Shimizu just couldn't shoot the dog.
• My Country, Right or Wrong: Kuribayashi (and the American general), in a scene at a dinner in the US.

Kuribayashi: 'I would have to follow my convictions.'
American friend: 'You mean your convictions or your country's convictions?'
Kuribayashi: 'Are they not the same?'
American friend:(smiles, nods) 'Spoken like a true soldier'
American wife: 'Oh that's awful, Bernie, it means that you're dead.'

• My Girl Back Home: Mostly Saigo's young wife Hanako, whom he writes to, and is shown begging him not to leave. They also have a baby daughter he's never met.
• The Neidermeyer: Lieutenant Ito.
  • Captain Tanida embodies this trope even more. In every one of his scenes, he is depicted brutally bullying the soldiers under his command in some form or another. In particular, he seems to enjoy making Pvt. Saigo's life a living hell. Hell, in his final act alive, he orders his troops to commit suicide. There's a guy you want to work for!
• Non-Action Guy: Saigo can't even handle a rifle properly, and the only reason he survives is because he's smart/cowardly enough to hang back from wherever there's violence. Kuribayashi mistakes his survival instincts for fighting skills and is corrected. Kuribayashi later takes advantage of Saigo's survival instincts by entrusting him with the bag of letters.
• No Kill Like Overkill: The pre-invasion bombardment. A rare example of the protagonist on the receiving end.
• Obligatory War Crime Scene: The bayoneting of the American soldier who got into the cave, as well as the execution of two surrendered Japanese soldiers by a pair of bored Americans who were expressly ordered to keep them under guard.
• Oh Crap: Saigo is sent outside to empty the latrine bucket and discovers the ocean is literally covered with American warships from horizon to horizon--just in time for the opening gun of one of the largest naval bombardments in history.
• The Promise: Saigo promises his unborn baby that he will return home alive. He apparently keeps it.
• Proud Warrior Race Guy: Baron Nishi represents the noble side of the Japanese warrior tradition in direct contrast to Lt. Ito.
• Punch Clock Villain: Saigo, who is specifically shown to be a unwilling draftee. He's also never shown actually fighting against the Americans, perhaps to ensure he retains the target audience's sympathy
• Shoot the Dog: A literal example.
  • Nishi's horse Jupiter to some extent.
• Shoot the Medic First: Lt. Ito shows tells his men to target medics because enemy soldiers will sacrifice themselves to save them.
• Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: Leaning a fair bit more to the cynical side.
• State Sec: The Kempeitai.
• There Is No Kill Like Overkill: The pre-invasion bombardment. By one reckoning the US expended more than 26 tons of munitions for every Japanese soldier on the island over the course of the battle, from 16 inch down to .45 ACP
• Tragic Hero: Kuribayashi, both in the movie and in real life. Sent to Iwo Jima because of his 'soft' attitudes, suspected American sympathies and advocacy of 'defeatist' defensive tactics, Kuribayashi inspired his men to use those defensive tactics to inflict more casualties on his American friends then any other Japanese general. His American opponent General Howland M. 'Howling Mad' Smith called him 'The most redoubtable foe' while to the common soldier he was the 'Best damn general on this stinking island' and 'Let's hope the Japs don't have any more like him.'
• Very Loosely Based on a True Story: Several incidents, such as Lt. Ito's poignantly pathetic anti-tank strategy, are taken straight from the pages of history. Others, such as the blinding of Lt. Colonel Nishi, were rumored but could never be confirmed. No one really knows what really happened to General Kuribayashi as no surviving witnesses ever came forward.
• War Is Hell: Yes.
• Yanks With Tanks: The film's antagonists.

Clint Eastwood, and after a screening at theLetters from Iwo Jima ( 硫黄島からの手紙, Iōjima Kara no Tegami) is a 2006 Japanese-language American directed and co-produced by, starring. The film portrays the from the perspective of the and is a companion piece to Eastwood's, which depicts the same battle from the American viewpoint; the two films were shot back to back. Letters from Iwo Jima is almost entirely in, although it was produced by American companies,. After Flags of Our Fathers underperformed at the box office, swapped the United States distribution rights to Warner Bros., who had the international rights.The film was released in on December 9, 2006 and received a limited release in the on December 20, 2006 in order to be eligible for consideration for the.

It was subsequently released in more areas of the U.S. On January 12, 2007, and was released in most states on January 19. An English-dubbed version of the film premiered on April 7, 2008.

Upon release, the film received critical acclaim and did slightly better at the box office than its companion. Contents.Plot In 2005, Japanese explore tunnels on, where they find something in the dirt.The scene changes to in 1944. Saigo and his are digging beach trenches on the island. Meanwhile, arrives to take command of the garrison and immediately begins an inspection of the island defenses. He saves Saigo and his friend Kashiwara from a beating by Captain Tanida for 'unpatriotic speeches', and orders the men to begin tunneling underground defenses into. Kuribayashi and, a famous, clash with some of the other officers, who do not agree with Kuribayashi's strategy: Kuribayashi believes the US will take the beaches quickly, and that the mountain defenses will have a better chance for holding out.Poor nutrition and unsanitary conditions take their toll; many die of, including Kashiwara.

The troops begin using the caves. Kashiwara's replacement, Shimizu, arrives for duty. Saigo suspects that Shimizu is a spy from the sent to report on disloyal soldiers.Soon, American aircraft and warships begin to appear and bombard the island, causing significant casualties. A few days later, the land. The American troops suffer heavy casualties, but the beach defenses are quickly overcome, as Kuribayashi predicted, and the attack turns to the positions on. While delivering a request for more machine guns from his commander to the Suribachi garrison, Saigo overhears Kuribayashi radioing orders to retreat. The commander, however, ignores the General and instead orders his company to commit suicide.

Saigo runs away with Shimizu, convincing him to continue the fight rather than die. They find two other soldiers, but one is incinerated by an American flamethrower, and they witness a captured Marine being bayoneted to death.Saigo and the soldiers in Mount Suribachi try to flee with Lt.

Colonel Oiso at night, but they run into Marines, who wipe out all except Saigo and Shimizu. They flee to friendly lines, but are accused by Lieutenant Ito of. Ito raises his to execute them for cowardice, but Kuribayashi arrives and saves Saigo again by confirming his order to retreat.The Japanese attack US positions but take heavy losses. The survivors are told to regroup with Colonel Nishi while Ito heads to the US lines with three mines, intending to throw himself under a tank. Nishi converses in English with a captured Marine, Sam, until Sam eventually dies from his wounds.

Later, blinded by shrapnel, Nishi orders his men to withdraw and asks Lieutenant Okubo to leave him a rifle. Upon leaving, the soldiers hear a gunshot from Nishi's cave.Saigo plans surrender, and Shimizu reveals that he was dishonorably discharged from the Kempeitai because he disobeyed an order to kill a civilian's dog. Shimizu escapes and surrenders to Americans, but is later.

Meanwhile, Ito, desperate and malnourished, breaks down and, when found by the US Marines, surrenders. Okubo is killed as he and his men arrive at Kuribayashi's position. Saigo meets up with Kuribayashi, and one last attack is planned.

Kuribayashi orders Saigo to stay behind and destroy all documents, including his own letters, saving Saigo's life a third time.That night, Kuribayashi launches a final surprise attack. Most of his men are killed, and Kuribayashi is critically wounded, but Kuribayashi's loyal aide Fujita drags him away. The next morning, Kuribayashi orders Fujita to behead him; however, Fujita is shot dead by a Marine sniper before he can do so. Saigo appears, having buried some of the documents and letters instead of burning them all. Kuribayashi asks Saigo to bury him where he will not be found, then draws his pistol, an American — a gift Kuribayashi was given in the US before the war — and commits suicide. A tearful Saigo then buries him.Later, a US patrol find Fujita's body. One Marine officer finds Kuribayashi's pistol and tucks it under his belt.

They search the area and find Saigo with his shovel. Seeing the pistol in the Marine lieutenant's belt, Saigo becomes furious and attacks the Americans with his shovel. Too weak to fight, he is knocked unconscious and taken to the beach. Awakening on a stretcher, he glimpses the setting sun and smiles grimly.Back in 2005, the archeologists complete their digging, revealing the bag of letters that Saigo had buried, and open it.

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Filming in California wrapped on April 8, and the cast and crew then headed back to the studio in for more scenes before Eastwood, Watanabe and a skeleton crew made a quick one-day trip to Iwo Jima for some on-location shots. finished in late 2006. The filmmakers had to be given special permission from the to film on Iwo Jimabecause more than 10,000 missing Japanese soldiers still rest under its soil.

The (JMSDF) operates a naval air base on, which is used by the for operations such as nighttime carrier landing practice. Civilian access to the island is restricted to those attending memorial services for fallen American Marines and Japanese soldiers.The battleship, which was used in closeup shots of the fleet (for both movies) also participated in the actual attack on Iwo Jima for five days.

The only character to appear in both Flags of Our Fathers and Letters From Iwo Jima is, played by Alessandro Mastrobuono.Sources The film is based on the non-fiction books 'Gyokusai sōshikikan' no etegami ('Picture letters from the Commander in Chief') by General (portrayed on screen by ) and So Sad To Fall In Battle: An Account of War by Kumiko Kakehashi about the Battle of Iwo Jima. While some characters such as Saigo are fictional, the overall battle as well as several of the commanders are based upon actual people and events.Reception Critical response In the United States The film was critically acclaimed, and well noted for its portrayal of good and evil on both sides of the battle.

The critics heavily praised the writing, direction, cinematography and acting. The review tallying website reported that 184 out of the 202 reviews they tallied were positive for a score of 91% and a certification of 'fresh.' The site's consensus states: 'A powerfully humanistic portrayal of the perils of war, this companion piece to Flags of Our Fathers is potent and thought-provoking, and it demonstrates Clint Eastwood's maturity as a director.' Gave the movie a score of 89 based on 37 reviews, indicating 'universal acclaim'. Lisa Schwarzbaum of, of the, and Richard Schickel of were among many critics to name it the best picture of the year.

In addition, of and of the both gave it four stars, and Todd McCarthy of praised the film, assigning it a rare 'A' rating.On December 6, 2006, the named Letters from Iwo Jima the best film of 2006. On December 10, 2006, the named Letters from Iwo Jima Best Picture of 2006. Furthermore, Clint Eastwood was runner-up for directing honors. In addition, the named it one of the 10 best films of 2006. It was also named Best Film in a Foreign Language on January 15 during the, while Clint Eastwood held a nomination for Best Director.' S Tom Charity in his review described Letters from Iwo Jima as 'the only American movie of the year I won't hesitate to call a masterpiece.' On the 'Best Films of the Year 2006' broadcast (December 31, 2006) of the television show, listed the film at #3 and guest critic listed it at #1, claiming that the film was 'close to perfect.'

Awarded the film a perfect score (4 out of 4 stars) and raved about it as well. Awarded a 3 out of 4 star review, concluding with that although both 'Letters' and 'Flags' were imperfect but interesting, 'Letters from Iwo Jima' was more focused, strong and straightforward than its companion piece.On January 23, 2007, the film received four nominations. Eastwood was nominated for his directing, as well as Best Picture along with producers. It was also nominated for Best Original Screenplay.

The film took home one award, Best Sound Editing.The film also appeared on many critics' top ten lists of the best films of 2006. In Japan The film was far more commercially successful in Japan than in the U.S., ranking number 1 for five weeks, and receiving a warm reception from both Japanese audiences and critics. The Japanese critics noted that Clint Eastwood presented Kuribayashi as a 'caring, erudite commander of Japan's Iwo Jima garrison, along with Japanese soldiers in general, in a sensitive, respectful way.' Also, the Japanese newspaper noted that the movie is clearly 'distinguishable' from previous Hollywood movies, which tended to portray Japanese characters with non-Japanese actors (e.g., Chinese-Americans, and other Asian-Americans). Consequently, incorrect and non-native accents were conspicuous in those former films, jarring their realism for the Japanese audience. In contrast, most Japanese roles in Letters from Iwo Jima are played by native Japanese actors.

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Also, the article praised the film's new approach, as it is scripted with excellent research into Japanese society at that time. According to the article, previous Hollywood movies describing Japan were based on the stereotypical images of Japanese society, which looked 'weird' to native Japanese audiences. Letters from Iwo Jima is remarkable as the movie that tries to escape from the stereotypes.