
The battle of Iwo Jima seen through the eyes of the Japanese soldiers.
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Cast
- Ken Watanabe
- Kazunari Ninomiya
- Tsuyoshi Ihara
- Ryô Kase
- Shidô Nakamura
- Hiroshi Watanabe
- Takumi Bando
- Yuki Matsuzaki
- Takashi Yamaguchi
- Eijiro Ozaki
- Nae
- Nobumasa Sakagami
- Lucas Elliot Eberl
- Sonny Saito
- Steve Santa Sekiyoshi
- Hiro Abe
- Toshiya Agata
- Yoshi Ishii
- Toshi Toda
- Ken Kensei
- Ikuma Ando
- Akiko Shima
- Masashi Nagadoi
- Mark Moses
- Roxanne Hart
- Yoshio Iizuka
- Mitsu
- Takuji Kuramoto
- Avery Wada
- Yoshi Tomo Kaneda
- Shoji Hattori
- Mark Tadashi Takahashi
- Mitsuyuki Oishi
- Evan Ellingson
- Kazuyuki Morosawa
- Masayuki Yonezawa
- Hiroshi Tom Tanaka
- Mathew Botuchis
- Yukari Black
- Daisuke Nagashima
- Kirk Enochs
- Ryan Kelley
- Jonathan Oliver Sessler
- Michael Lawson
- Taishi Mizuno
- Daisuke Tsuji
- Yoshi Ando
- Yutaka Takeuchi
- Tsuguo Mizuno
- Mark Ofuji
- Hallock Beals
- Ryan Carnes
- Jeremy Glazer
- Ryoya Katsuyama
- Masashi Odate
- London Kim
- Dick 'Skip' Evans
- Wanliss E. Armstrong
- Rio Ahn
- Jean-Luc Julien
- Satch Watanabe
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The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.
The island of Iwo Jima stands between the American military force and the home islands of Japan. Therefore the Imperial Japanese Army is desperate to prevent it from falling into American hands and providing a launching point for an invasion of Japan. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi (Ken Watanabe) is given command of the forces on the island and sets out to prepare for the imminent attack. General Kuribayashi, however, does not favor the rigid traditional approach recommended by his subordinates, and resentment and resistance fester amongst his staff. In the lower echelons, a young soldier, Saigo (Kazunari Ninomiya), a poor baker in civilian life, strives with his friends to survive the harsh regime of the Japanese Army itself, all the while knowing that a fierce battle looms. When the American invasion begins, Kuribayashi and Saigo find strength, honor, courage, and horrors beyond imagination.