Director: Cint Eastwood.

Writers: Iris Yamashita (screenplay) & (story), Paul Haggis (story).

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In 1944 Japanese archaeologists explore tunnels on Iwo Jima. A baker private First Class Saigo conscripted into the Imperial Japanese Army and his platoons are grudgingly digging beach trenches on the island.

At the same time, Lieutenant General Tadamichi Kuribayashi arrives to take command of the garrison and at ones begins an inspection of the island defenses.

He saves Saigo and his friend Kashiwara from a beating for having uttered ‘unpatriotic speeches’ and orders the men to stop digging trenches on the beach and begin tunneling defenses into Mount Suribachi.

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• Originally titled “Red Sun, Black Sand”.
• The only cast member to be in both this film and its companion piece, Flags of Our Fathers (2006), appears in the flamethrowing image of Chuck Lindberg (played by Alessandro Mastrobuono). He advances on a bunker with a flamethrower. Individual members of the casts of both films have met, though never officially presented together, as there are commonalities between the casts in the acting community.
• Ken Watanabe read actual letters sent by Imperial Japanese Army Gen. Tadamichi Kuribayashi to his family from Iwo Jima while preparing for his role.
• The story of Lt. Ito strapping mines to himself and lying among corpses to attack a tank is based on the real-life story of Satoru Omagiri, as told in “The Rising Sun” by JohnToland.
• Kazunari Ninomiya, who played Saigo, is a part of the Japanese pop boy-band Arashi.
• General Tadamichi Kuribayashi’s pistol is a Colt M1911A1 with white ivory grips. The pistol was designed by John M. Browning in 1911 and was the US sidearm all the way up to 1986.

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