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Arctic Blast movies Training Day movies, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock movies. It’s another strong entry into our series and despite its sobering content, we have a fantastic conversation about it. Argentinian poster for Letters from Iwo Jima.

And we touch on the music and the composers behind it. We look at the incredible albeit muted cinematography of Tom Stern paired with the great production design by the legendary Henry Bumstead in his last film. We also talk about the casting and the nature of acting, and why this was Phyllis Huffman’s last film with Eastwood as his casting director. We chat about Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, and Ryô Kase and look at what they each bring to the table. We look at the nature of Japanese society and the rituals depicted in this film, and chat about why this film connected with so many Japanese people on its release.

We discuss the reasons this film ended up in our series but was not eligible to be nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. We talk about the interesting journey this film took in getting put together as a companion piece to the film Eastwood was originally making about the famous WWII battle. Join us – Pete Wright and Andy Nelson – as we continue our Foreign Language Films Nominated for Best Picture series with Eastwood’s 2006 film Letters From Iwo Jima. With that, Letters From Iwo Jima was born. When he brought this up to producer Steven Spielberg, they decided that it was interesting enough to make a second film detailing that perspective. This interest led him down a rabbit hole of curiosities that made him want to tell that story too. During pre-production on Flags of Our Fathers, Clint Eastwood was doing research and became curious about who it was on the Japanese side of the Battle of Iwo Jima who was leading their troops.