The Battleship Yamato (1953)
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".
- Released
- 1953-06-15
- Genres
- Drama, War
- Runtime
- 104 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Toshio Yasumi, Yutaka Abe
Cast
- Susumu Fujita as Jiro Nomura
- Gen Funabashi as Ensign Yoshimura
- Minoru Takada as 2nd Fleet Commander-in-Chief Ito
- Takamaru Sasaki as Captain Aruga
- Toranosuke Ogawa as Combined Fleet Chief of Staff Kusaka
- Bontarō Miake as Chief army surgeon Yamada
- Ichirō Izawa as Lieutenant Iwao Usubuchi
- Akihiko Katayama as Ensign Nishida
- Tadao Takashima as Ensign Takada
- Yoshiro Katagiri as Ensign Mori
- Shoji Nakayama
- Kenji Kawai as Ensign Eguchi
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