Letters From Iwo Jima Poster Winners

WB has come forward with 10 posters for us to give away for their film Iwo Jima and we have chosen the 10 lucky winners. Clint Eastwood's follow-up to his critically acclaimed World War II drama "Flags of Our Fathers" will open domestically in limited release in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco on December 20, 2006. Like "Flags of Our Fathers", "Letters From Iwo Jima" chronicles the pivotal battle for the Japanese island of Iwo Jima. However, while the first film is centered around the six men who raised the flag on Mount Suribachi in the famous photo, "Letters From Iwo Jima" views the battle from the perspective of the island's Japanese defenders. The winners are, in no order:

Sixty-one years ago, U.S. and Japanese armies met on Iwo Jima. Decades later, several hundred letters are unearthed from that stark island's soil. The letters give faces and voices to the men who fought there, as well as the extraordinary general who led them, Tadamichi Kuribayashi (Ken Watanabe). With little defense other than sheer will and the volcanic rock of the island itself, Gen. Kuribayashi's unprecedented tactics transform what was predicted to be a quick and bloody defeat into nearly 40 days of heroic and resourceful combat.

 

 

In an effort to explore an event that continues to resonate with both cultures, Clint Eastwood was haunted by the sense that making only one film, "Flags of Our Fathers", would be telling only half the story. With this unprecedented dual film project, shot back-to-back to be released in sequence, Eastwood seeks to reveal the battle of Iwo Jima - and, by implication, the war in the Pacific - as a clash not only of arms but of cultures.