The Battleship Yamato (1953)
1953 · 1h 44m · Drama, War
Genres: Drama, War
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".
Director: Yutaka Abe
Writers: Toshio Yasumi
Music by: Yasushi Akutagawa
Cinematography: Minoru Yokoyama
Editor: Toshio Goto
Cast
Susumu Fujita as Jiro NomuraGen Funabashi as Ensign YoshimuraMinoru Takada as 2nd Fleet Commander-in-Chief ItoTakamaru Sasaki as Captain ArugaToranosuke Ogawa as Combined Fleet Chief of Staff KusakaBontarō Miake as Chief army surgeon YamadaIchirō Izawa as Lieutenant Iwao UsubuchiAkihiko Katayama as Ensign NishidaTadao Takashima as Ensign TakadaYoshiro Katagiri as Ensign MoriShoji NakayamaKenji Kawai as Ensign EguchiMore like this
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