Factual error: When American Cosair fighter planes strafe the Japanese soldiers with their machine guns, only two columns of bullets are seen striking the ground. These planes had six machine guns; there should be six columns.
Letters From Iwo Jima (2006)
1 factual error - chronological order
Directed by: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Ryo Kase, Tsuyoshi Ihara
Continuity mistake: When the plane lands in the pouring rain and the soldiers gets out of the plane, you can see their jackets are already wet from previous takes.
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi: Everything happens in threes.
Trivia: This film was filmed back-to-back with Flags of Our Fathers, a movie from the American perspective of the battle of Iwo Jima.
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