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Battle of Iwo Jima Films (Study Guide): Sands of Iwo Jima, Letters From Iwo Jima, Flags of Our Fathers, Glamour Gal, to the Shores of Iwo Jima
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-10-21.
ISBN 9781156173053
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This is nonfiction commentary. Chapters: Sands of Iwo Jima, Letters From Iwo Jima, Flags of Our Fathers, Glamour Gal, to the Shores of Iwo Jima. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 38. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Letters from Iwo Jima I Jima Kara no Tegami ) is a 2006 war film directed and co-produced by Clint Eastwood, and starring Ken Watanabe and Kazunari Ninomiya. The film portrays the Battle of Iwo Jima from the perspective of the Japanese soldiers and is a companion piece to Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers, which depicts the same battle from the American viewpoint. The film is almost entirely in Japanese, but was produced by American companies Warner Bros., DreamWorks, Malpaso Productions, and Amblin Entertainment. Letters from Iwo Jima was released in Japan on December 9, 2006 and received a limited release in the United States on December 20, 2006 in order to compete for the 79th Academy Awards. It was subsequently released in more areas of the United States on January 12, 2007, and was released in most states on January 19. An English-dubbed version of the film was premiered on April 7, 2008. The film is based on the non-fiction books "Gyokusai sshikikan" no etegami ("Picture letters from the Commander in Chief") by General Tadamichi Kuribayashi (portrayed on screen by Ken Watanabe) 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. In 2005, Japanese archaeologists explore tunnels on Iwo Jima. They find something in the dirt, and the scene changes to Iwo Jima in 1944. Private First Class Saigo, a baker conscripted into the Imperial Japanese Army, and his platoon are grudgingly diggin...http://booksllc.net/?id=14725310
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