The Battleship Yamato

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".

Country:

Japan

Genre:

Drama,

War

Duration:

104 minutes

Year:

1953

Director:

Yutaka Abe

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Company:

Shintoho Company

Cast:
Susumu Fujita

Jiro Nomura

Gen Funabashi

Ensign Yoshimura

Minoru Takada

2nd Fleet Commander-in-Chief Ito

Takamaru Sasaki

Captain Aruga

Toranosuke Ogawa

Combined Fleet Chief of Staff Kusaka

Crew:
Toshio Goto

Editor

Seigo Shindo

Art Direction

Mitsuru Yoshida

Original Story

Masakazu Kamiya

Sound Recordist

Toshio Mochizuki

Producer