Shorenstein APARC hosts Clint Eastwood for final film in Divided Lenses series

On December 4, Clint Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima was the last of four films to be screened at the Cubberley Auditorium as part of the Shorenstein APARC Divided Lenses: Film and War Memories in Asia film series. The film portrays the Battle of Iwo Jima (February 19-March 26, 1945) as experienced by Lt. Gen. Tadamichi Kuribayashi and the Japanese soldiers who served under his command.

Following the screening Robert Toplin, professor of history at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, interviewed Eastwood about the making of the film. Eastwood remarked that Letters from Iwo Jima won Japan's Academy Prize for "Outstanding Foreign Language Film," joking that he was the only foreign thing about the film, as the screenwriter and most of the cast and crew were Japanese.