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".

Release: 1953-06-15

Runtime: 104 min

Cast

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