Apr 7th
Letters from Iwo Jima***
(Ipswich Film Theatre)

Archaeologists in present day Iwo Jima unearth secret letters written by Japanese soldiers during their defence of the island against the Americans in 1944.
Audacious follow-up to Flags of Our Fathers spoken mostly in Japanese with subtitles, deliberately shot in very poor colour with the now fashionable hand-held camera during most of the action scenes, but Eastwood's sensibilities give extra dimension to the characters which the mostly Japanese cast bring to life brilliantly.

d: Clint Eastwood
s: Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase, Shido Nakamura