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The Battleship Yamato
19531h 44m
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".
Directed by Yutaka Abe
Written by Mitsuru Yoshida, Toshio Yasumi
Produced by Katsuzô Shino, Toshio Mochizuki
0Top Cast
Susumu Fujita
Jiro Nomura
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Gen Funabashi
Ensign Yoshimura
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
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Yoshiro Katagiri
Ensign Mori
About The Battleship Yamato
The Battleship Yamato is a drama, war film released in 1953. Directed by Yutaka Abe, it stars Susumu Fujita, Gen Funabashi, Minoru Takada. 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".
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