The Battleship Yamato
戰艦大和
Release: 1953-06-15
·Runtime: 104m
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".
Production Countries
Japan
Production Companies
Shintoho Company
Cast
Ichirō Izawa
as Lieutenant Iwao Usubuchi
Akihiko Katayama
as Ensign Nishida
Minoru Takada
as 2nd Fleet Commander-in-Chief Ito
Tadao Takashima
as Ensign Takada
Shoji Nakayama
Hiroshi Kondō
Hiroshi Ogasawara
as Ensign Suzuki
Kyōzō Fuyuki
Toranosuke Ogawa
as Combined Fleet Chief of Staff Kusaka
Bontarō Miake
as Chief army surgeon Yamada
Tetsu Nakamura
Susumu Fujita
as Jiro Nomura
Takamaru Sasaki
as Captain Aruga
