The Great War of Archimedes

The Great War of Archimedes (2019)

アルキメデスの大戦

It is the early 1930s and the command of the Japanese Imperial Navy determines to construct the world's biggest and most formidable battleship, Yamato. One of the admirals, Yamamoto Isoroku, disagrees. He recruits the upstart and mathematics' expert Tadashi Kai who discovers there are discrepancies between the official cost estimates and the actual figures. They soon find out that they have stumbled upon a conspiracy.

Date of release
2019-07-26
TMDB
6.7 / 10 (37)
Runtime
2h 10m
Genres
War, Action, Mystery, Drama
Director
Takashi Yamazaki

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Archimedes no Taisen

The Great War of Archimedes is a 2019 Japanese historical drama film directed, written and with visual effects by Takashi Yamazaki. Concerning the building of the battleship Yamato, the film is based on a manga by Norifusa Mita. It is a fictionalized telling of the political maneuvers, specifically pertaining to budget and cost issues, that led to the decision to build the Yamato. The film was dubbed into various languages and distributed worldwide.

Production

In July 2018, Yamazaki announced the production will start and entitled The Great War of Archimedes based on a manga by Norifusa Mita, this picture about the building of the battleship Yamato, and starred Masaki Suda in his first collaboration with Yamazaki.

Voice actors for the dubbing into English include Luis Bermudez, Brent Mukai, Lizzy Laurenti, and Dylan Mobley.

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