Tsushima Maru: Goodbye, Okinawa

Animation, History, War · 1982

A documentary anime retelling the shipwreck of the freight boat Tsushima Maru, which was carrying 836 schoolchildren home in July 1944 when it was attacked and sunk by an American submarine. Produced by the surviving family members of the Tsushima Maru.

Starring

Mayumi Tanaka, Osamu Kobayashi, Tsutomu Shibayama, Yuko Maruyama, Shinobu Adachi, Koji Chino, Shōichirō Ōkubo, Yoshito Yasuhara, Kazuko Makino, Yumiko Suda

Director

Osamu Kobayashi