
Ken Watanabe, Hirsohi Watanabe
Letters From Iwo Jima by Clint Eastwood
USA 2006, Competition

Ken Watanabe
Letters From Iwo Jima by Clint Eastwood
USA 2006, Competition

Kazunari Ninomiya
Letters From Iwo Jima by Clint Eastwood
USA 2006, Competition

Hrio Abe
Letters From Iwo Jima by Clint Eastwood
USA 2006, Competition

Shidou Nakamura
Letters From Iwo Jima by Clint Eastwood
USA 2006, Competition

Ken Kasai, Masashi Nagadoi, Hirsohi Watanabe, Ken Watanabe
Letters From Iwo Jima by Clint Eastwood
USA 2006, Competition

Yuki Ishimaru, Clint Eastwood, Ken Watanabe
Letters From Iwo Jima by Clint Eastwood
USA 2006, Competition
The Japanese soldiers who were sent to Iwo Jima knew that they would probably not return. One of them is the baker Saigo, who is determined to live to see his new-born daughter. Among the other soldiers are Baron Nishi, gold medallist in horsemanship at the 1936 Olympic games; an idealistic ex-cop named Shimizu, and Lieutenant Ito, who is committed to the Japanese cause. They all receive their orders from Lieutenant General Tadamichi Kuribayashi, a worldly intellectual, who has travelled the USA. Thanks to a brilliant strategy, he manages to delay by forty days his troops' defeat at the hands of the superior American forces. But there's a high price to pay. At the end of the battle, 7,000 American and over 20,000 Japanese soldiers were to meet their deaths on Iwo Jima.
The battle was made legendary by a photograph of an American soldier hoisting the US flag. Reproduced hundreds of times, this photograph was to become an iconic image of the war in the Pacific. The story of how this photograph was taken is at the centre of Eastwood's last film, FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS. LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA now follows the story of this bitter struggle from a Japanese perspective.
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Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood is presenting his film Letters from Iwo Jima out of competition. The film is the second part of a project that began with Eastwood's Flags of our Fathers.
Letters From Iwo Jima · Competition · Feb 11, 2007

Letters from Iwo Jima
Ninomiya Kazunari, Watanabe Ken and Ihara Tsuyoshi, cast members of Clint Eastwood's film Letters from Iwo Jima.
Letters From Iwo Jima · Competition · Programme Press Conference · Feb 11, 2007

Dieter Kosslick, Clint Eastwood
As a special surprise after the premiere of Letters from Iwo Jima, Berlinale-Direktor Dieter Kosslick awards Clint Eastwood a Berlinale Camera.
Letters From Iwo Jima · Competition · Berlinale Palast · Berlinale Camera · Feb 11, 2007

Letters from Iwo Jima
Dieter Kosslick (r.) welcomes Pierre Rissient and Clint Eastwood - the producer and the director of Letters from Iwo Jima - in the Berlinale's VIP Club.
Letters From Iwo Jima · Competition · Feb 11, 2007

Dieter Kosslick
Dieter Kosslick and Clint Eastwood in a silent discussion.
Letters From Iwo Jima · Competition · Festival Impressions · Berlinale Camera · Feb 12, 2007

Clint Eastwood
One of the Berlinale Cameras of the year 2007 was given to Clint Eastwood.
Letters From Iwo Jima · Competition · Berlinale Camera · 2007

Kazunari Ninomiya
Letters From Iwo Jima · Competition · Feb 11, 2007
© Gerhard Kassner / Berlinale

Ken Watanabe
Letters From Iwo Jima · Competition · Feb 11, 2007
© Gerhard Kassner / Berlinale

Tsuyoshi Ihara
Letters From Iwo Jima · Competition · Feb 11, 2007
© Gerhard Kassner / Berlinale

Clint Eastwood
Letters From Iwo Jima · Competition · Feb 11, 2007
© Gerhard Kassner / Berlinale
Clint Eastwood, Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Rio Kase, Shidou Nakamura
Letters From Iwo Jima
Competition · Press Conference · Feb 11, 2007
Clint Eastwood, Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Rio Kase, Shidou Nakamura
Letters From Iwo Jima
Competition · Red Carpet · Feb 11, 2007