Synopsis
The film is about the Yamato's suicide mission to Okinawa in March 1945 to defend the homeland threatened by U.S. bombers. Adapted from Mitsuru Yoshida's 1952 book "Requiem for the Battleship Yamato".
Ratings
IMDb6/10
Key crew
- Yutaka AbeDirector
- Yasushi AkutagawaOriginal Music Composer
- Toshio YasumiScreenplay
Cast
- Susumu FujitaJiro Nomura
- Gen FunabashiEnsign Yoshimura
- Minoru Takada2nd Fleet Commander-in-Chief Ito
- Takamaru SasakiCaptain Aruga
- Toranosuke OgawaCombined Fleet Chief of Staff Kusaka
- Bontarō MiakeChief army surgeon Yamada
- Ichirō IzawaLieutenant Iwao Usubuchi
- Akihiko KatayamaEnsign Nishida
- Tadao TakashimaEnsign Takada
- Yoshiro KatagiriEnsign Mori
- Shoji NakayamaCast
- Kenji KawaiEnsign Eguchi