Movie, 1953
The Battleship Yamato
104 min, Drama, War, Japan
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".
Cast
20 credited
Susumu Fujita
Jiro Nomura
GF
Gen Funabashi
Ensign Yoshimura
Minoru Takada
2nd Fleet Commander-in-Chief Ito
Takamaru Sasaki
Captain Aruga
Toranosuke Ogawa
Combined Fleet Chief of Staff Kusaka
Bontarō Miake
Chief army surgeon Yamada
Ichirō Izawa
Lieutenant Iwao Usubuchi
Akihiko Katayama
Ensign Nishida
Tadao Takashima
Ensign Takada
YK
Yoshiro Katagiri
Ensign Mori
Shoji Nakayama
Cast
KK
Kenji Kawai
Ensign Eguchi
Details
DirectorYutaka Abe
WritersToshio Yasumi, Mitsuru Yoshida
GenreDrama, War
Runtime104 min
ReleasedMon, Jun 15, 1953
CountryJapan
IMDBtt1517509
