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Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) Certificate 15

Letters from Iwo Jima
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Rated 3.5 stars
Average rating
(69%)
 
Starring: Ken Watanabe | Kazunari Ninomiya | Tsuyoshi Ihara | Ryo Kase | Shido Nakamura | Hiroshi Watanabe | Ryan Phillippe | Jesse Bradford | Adam Beach | John Benjamin Hickey | John Slattery | Barry Pepper | Jamie Bell | Paul Walker | Robert Patrick | Joseph Cros
Director: Clint Eastwood
Studio: WARNER BROS
Run time: 140 mins
Genres: Action/Adventure | Audio Descriptive
Languages: Japanese, English Audio Description
Subtitles: English
Released: July 09, 2007

The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.

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104 out of 109 people found the following review helpful:

Rated 5.0 stars
Deeply Moving

A Customer from Nottingham UK, 27th February, 2007

This film is over two hours long, but passed by in what seemed like ten minutes, A truly amazing and deeply moving cinema experience not to be missed by anyone with just the slightest interest in events from ww2. You feel like you are there on the island suffering every emotion and fear with the brilliant cast of actors, How this film missed out on a Oscar to the most over rated film of all time The Departed will remain a mystery to me.

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73 out of 91 people found the following review helpful:

Rated 2.0 stars
Letters from Iwo Jima

neill campbell from Northern Ireland, 30th December, 2007

Not a bad film. There are loads of films which give an Allied view of the events and battles of WW2, this film gives an insight to the Battle of Iwo Jima from a Japanese Soldier's view. Unfortunately it is in Japanese, with subtitles in English, which is why it only gets 2 stars.

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40 out of 40 people found the following review helpful:

Rated 5.0 stars
clints best

brian green from scotland, 27th May, 2007

superior to flags in many ways, the slow burn being at the start this time, instead of lots of slow sections dropped in here & there in flags.the action also feels more brutal here & for once the enemy is not portrayed as the usual banzai head band etc wearing badguy.personally i rate this a five star movie as i cannot find a single fault in this story which is a marvelous tribute to all who fought there, on what must have been hell on earth

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25 out of 35 people found the following review helpful:

Rated 1.0 stars
japan-knees

A Customer from Weybridge, 3rd February, 2008

What??? Eh??? Couldn't understand a word! Easy peasy japanesey!!!!! Loved it apart from not being able to understand it. War!!! Brilliant.

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Most recent reviews

Rated 5.0 stars
Make your own mind up

A Customer from Wallsend, 18th March, 2010

This is a 5 star film. If you switch off straight away because ther is subtitles you are missing out on an all time great movie. Helps you understand both sides of the war. For those who can't be bothered, go watch Transformers and let the grown ups rent this....

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Rated 2.0 stars
lettersfromiwo jima

A Customer from Mirfield, 7th March, 2010

tried twice to watch this film but just could'nt get to gripps with it but don't be put off judge for yourself

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Rated 4.0 stars
Outstanding Combo

Benard from , 28th February, 2010

This is by far the better of the two films (Flags of our Fathers being the complementary one). Has a really period feel to it and the fact that its in Japanese just adds to the whole atmosphere. Definitely one to watch.

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Rated 1.0 stars
Not to Keen

muzz from , 27th February, 2010

As in many other true event dramatisations I much prefer watching a documentary of the events.

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