Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet

Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet (2011)

聯合艦隊司令長官 山本五十六 – 太平洋戦争70年目の真実

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (1884-1943) was the Japanese Naval commander who was given the order to attack Pearl Harbour, an order he was duty bound to obey which went against his own personal beliefs. While this infamous attack is a low point in Japanese and US history it wouldn’t have happened if the Japanese government had listened to Yamamoto in 1939 and searched for a more peaceful way to end their war campaign, proving his many ominous presages of the outcomes of the attack to come true.

Date of release
2011-12-23
TMDB
6.4 / 10 (44)
Runtime
2h 15m
Genres
History, War
Director
Izuru Narushima

Casting

Interesting facts

Isoroku is a 2011 Japanese biographical film about Isoroku Yamamoto, the Imperial Japanese Navy's (IJN) Marshal Admiral and the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II. Other English home media titles of the film are The Admiral, and Admiral Yamamoto. English titles not used in home video releases are Yamamoto Isoroku, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet and Admiral Isoroku.

Filming

The making of the film lasted four years. Koji Yakusho, the lead actor, was reportedly the only actor considered for the role of Yamamoto, and the film would have been canceled if he turned it down. Yakusho was offered the role in the summer of 2009, and accepted the role in the winter of 2010. The production staff declared it intended to present an image of "what a Japanese leader should be".

The film was supervised by renowned historical scholar-writer Kazutoshi Hando. The war movie intended to show the real life of Gensui Yamamoto, Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet. It is a literary work. The award-winning director was Izuru Narushima.

The film was theatrically released in Japan on 308 screens nationwide, the box office revenue reaching ¥150,787,300. The film was viewed by 124,972 people in the first two days of 24 and 25 December 2011. It first appeared in the audience movie ranking (according to the box office news agency), coming in second place.

In September 2012, more than half a year after its release in Japan, the film was specially invited to be screened at the 36th Montreal World Film Festival.

Under the supervision of Hando, he focused on the accuracy of the film's depiction, even including the tableware used aboard ship. Ingenuity has been devised to depict personality and humanity, including scenes in which it is shown that Yamamoto liked water steamed buns (Mizumanju) and the traditional Japanese dessert Shiruko, personal details not dealt with in other works.

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