Which 2006 war film directed by Clint Eastwood tells the story of Japanese soldiers on Iwo Jima?

The 2006 war film directed by Clint Eastwood that tells the story of Japanese soldiers on Iwo Jima is Letters from Iwo Jima.

The film presents the Battle of Iwo Jima largely from the Japanese perspective, focusing on soldiers defending the island against the United States in 1945. Ken Watanabe plays General Tadamichi Kuribayashi, while Kazunari Ninomiya portrays Private Saigo, a fictional soldier whose experiences anchor much of the story.

Letters from Iwo Jima was made as a companion film to Eastwood’s Flags of Our Fathers, which depicts the same battle from the American viewpoint. The two films were shot back to back, but they are not alternate titles for the same movie. Despite being produced by American companies, Letters from Iwo Jima is performed almost entirely in Japanese.

The film premiered in Japan on December 9, 2006, and received four Academy Award nominations, winning for Best Sound Editing. The Pacific is a television miniseries, while Saving Private Ryan concerns the European theater of World War II.