Name Iris Yamashita Role Screenwriter | Education University of Tokyo Movies Letters from Iwo Jima | |
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Nominations Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay Similar People Paul Haggis, Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Takeichi Nishi, Michael Stevens, Robert Lorenz | ||
Iris Yamashita is a Japanese-American screenwriter.
She was hired by Clint Eastwood to write the Japanese side of the story of the Battle of Iwo Jima, once rumored to be titled Lamps Before the Wind, then called Red Sun, Black Sand, before being released as Letters from Iwo Jima. She was nominated in 2007 for the Academy Award for Original Screenplay.
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