Almost 7,000 American soldiers were killed on Iwo Jima more than 20,000 Japanese troops perished.
Kuribayashi's unprecedented tactics transform what was predicted to be a quick and bloody defeat into nearly 40 days of heroic and resourceful combat.
With little defense other than sheer will and the volcanic rock of the island itself, Gen. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi (Ken Watanabe), whose travels in America have revealed to him the hopeless nature of the war but also given him strategic insight into how to take on the vast American armada streaming in from across the Pacific. Among them are Saigo (Kazunari Ninomiya), a baker who wants only to live to see the face of his newborn daughter Baron Nishi (Tsuyoshi Ihara), an Olympic equestrian champion known around the world for his skill and his honor Shimizu (Ryo Kase), a young former military policeman whose idealism has not yet been tested by war and Lieutenant Ito (Shidou Nakamura), a strict military man who would rather accept suicide than surrender. The Japanese soldiers are sent to Iwo Jima knowing that, in all probability, they will not come back. The letters give faces and voices to the men who fought there, as well as the extraordinary general who led them. Decades later, several hundred letters are unearthed from that stark island's soil. Sixty-one years ago, US and Japanese armies met on Iwo Jima.
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