Letters from Iwo Jima. Screenplay by Iris Yamashita. Story by Iris Yamashita and Paul Haggis
first edition
2006 · Los Angeles
by YAMASHITA, IRIS
Los Angeles: Warner Bros, 2006. First Edition. Small format, 5 1/2” x 8 3/8”. Specially printed for distribution to members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences in consideration for nomination of the Best Screenplay. 116 page fourth draft shooting script for the film, Letters from Iwo Jima, written by Iris Yamashita from a story by Iris Yamashita and Paul Haggis, directed by Clint Eastwood, starring Ken Watanabe as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase, Shido Nakamura, Hiroshi Watanabe, and Takumi Bando. Fine copy in printed studio wrappers. Along with Clint Eastwood’s film, Flags of Our Fathers, this film offers another perspective to the pivotal World War II battle of Iwo Jima in ways both extremely personal and deeply politically influential. The film won the Oscar for Best Achievement in Sound Editing, and received several Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Writing, Original Screenplay. It won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film and was nominated for Best Director - Motion Picture. (Inventory #: 16489E)