The Battleship Yamato
1953 · Yutaka Abe · 104 min
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".
Susumu FujitaJiro NomuraGen 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 TakadaYoshiro KatagiriEnsign Mori
Shoji NakayamaKenji KawaiEnsign EguchiKeinosuke WadaEnsign NakataniMinoru AritaLieutenant Kato
Hiroshi Kondō
