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Film Club : Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)

Starring: Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Ryo Kase

Running Time: 141 minutes

Director: Clint Eastwood

Languages: Japanese, Korean

Subtitles: English, Arabic

Rating: R

Genre: War

General Tadamichi Kuribayashi is the American-educated general who courageously led the Japanese resistance to massive American onslaught of the island of Iwo Jima. When death looked imminent, Kuribayashi's unexpected strategies led his soldiers to fight for their lives and transform what was projected to be a quick and bloody defeat into nearly 40 days of heroic combat.