The Battleship Yamato

The Battleship Yamato

movie19531h 44mReleased

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

Susumu Fujita

Susumu Fujita

Jiro Nomura

Minoru Takada

Minoru Takada

2nd Fleet Commander-in-Chief Ito

Takamaru Sasaki

Takamaru Sasaki

Captain Aruga

Toranosuke Ogawa

Toranosuke Ogawa

Combined Fleet Chief of Staff Kusaka

Bontarō Miake

Bontarō Miake

Chief army surgeon Yamada

Ichirō Izawa

Ichirō Izawa

Lieutenant Iwao Usubuchi

Akihiko Katayama

Akihiko Katayama

Ensign Nishida

Tadao Takashima

Tadao Takashima

Ensign Takada

Shoji Nakayama

Shoji Nakayama

Hiroshi Kondō

Hiroshi Kondō

Hiroshi Ogasawara

Hiroshi Ogasawara

Ensign Suzuki

Tetsu Nakamura

Tetsu Nakamura