The Battleship Yamato

War · 1953

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".

Starring

Toshio Yasumi, Susumu Fujita, Gen Funabashi, Yasushi Akutagawa, Minoru Yokoyama, Minoru Takada, Takamaru Sasaki, Toshio Gotô, Ko Fujibayashi, Toranosuke Ogawa

Director

Yutaka Abe

Producer

Toshio Mochizuki