The Battleship Yamato (1953)
Overview
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
Jiro Nomura
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
Shoji Nakayama
Hiroshi Kondō
Hiroshi Ogasawara
Ensign Suzuki
Tetsu Nakamura
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