Sands of Iwo Jima also went down as one of the movie star’s most iconic movies, as well as a substantial feature film about war. The ‘Sands of Iwo Jima’ cast avoided John Wayne after ...

While Eastwood's movie may fare well on a technical level and in terms of its authenticity to the Battle of Iwo Jima, it's clear that the storytelling may be where the film's faults lie.Much of ...

The Man and The Movies,' chronicles a public feud between Eastwood and Spike Lee over Black representation in 'Letters from ...

One of the men, Saigo, is played by pop star Kazunari Ninomiya. Warner Bros. General Kuribayashi (Ken Watanabe) is in charge of the failed Japanese plan, in Letters From Iwo Jima .

Ken Watanabe gets emotional simply thinking about the first moment he saw Iwo Jima, the rocky Pacific isle that was the scene of a crucial battle in World War II and is the setting for Clint ...

“Letters From Iwo Jima,” “Flags of Our Fathers” (Warner Bros.): Clint Eastwood delivers an unparalleled film achievement with these bookend films that came out just two months apart last ...

The black sands of Iwo Jima passed into military legend, immortalised in a famous photograph by Joe Rosenthal showing a group of battered, exhausted Marines raising the Stars and Stripes on Mount ...

In “Flags of Our Fathers,” Clint Eastwood zeroed in on the raising of the U.S. flag over Iwo Jima in World War II, using that historic battle and its survivors ...

When filming for “Letters From Iwo Jima” wrapped on that historic island in the Pacific, the movie’s star, Ken Watanabe, scaled its dormant volcano with American members of the movie’s crew.

TOKYO — The Japanese website for Clint Eastwood’s “Letters From Iwo Jima” opens with a pitch to go see a movie about “an island the world must not forget.” But it is the Japanese who ...