The Imperial Navy (1981)

6.6/10 145 min War Drama

Overview

A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship during the Second World War.

Cast

Keiju Kobayashi

Isoroku Yamamoto

Toshiyuki Nagashima

Eiichi Hongo

Kenichi Kaneda

Shinji Hongo

Yuko Kotegawa

Yoko Hayase

Kiichi Nakai

Masato Odagiri

Yoshitaka Tanba

Tatsuya Mihashi

Kōji Takahashi

Ichirō Zaitsu

Hiroyuki Nagato

Ichirō Nakatani

Takuya Fujioka

Kei Satō

Shigeru Kōyama

Eitarō Ozawa

Nobuo Kaneko

Chuichi Nagumo

Makoto Satō

Tōru Abe

Jun Tazaki

Susumu Fujita

Navy Minister Oikawa

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