A Prestigious Television Event
Director Clint Eastwood offers a thoughtful portrait of the Japanese forces who held the island of Iwo Jima for 36 days in this World War II Japanese language drama. As Lt. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi (Ken Watanabe) and his men dig in for a battle they are not certain they can win -- and most have been told they will not survive -- their story is told both by watching their actions and through the letters they write home to their loved ones, letters that in many cases would not be delivered until long after they were dead.
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