The Battleship Yamato (1953)
戰艦大和
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".
- Date of release
- 1953-06-15
- Runtime
- 1h 44m
- Genres
- Drama, War
- Director
- Yutaka Abe
Casting
- Susumu Fujita — Jiro Nomura
- 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
- Yoshiro Katagiri — Ensign Mori
- Shoji Nakayama
- Kenji Kawai — Ensign Eguchi
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