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".
Director:
Yutaka Abe
Writer:
Toshio Yasumi
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Susumu Fujita as Jiro Nomura |
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Gen Funabashi as Ensign Yoshimura |
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Minoru Takada as 2nd Fleet Commander-in-Chief Ito |
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Takamaru Sasaki as Captain Aruga |
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Toranosuke Ogawa as Combined Fleet Chief of Staff Kusaka |
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Bontarō Miake as Chief army surgeon Yamada |
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Ichirō Izawa as Lieutenant Iwao Usubuchi |
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Akihiko Katayama as Ensign Nishida |
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Tadao Takashima as Ensign Takada |
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Yoshiro Katagiri as Ensign Mori |
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Shoji Nakayama as |
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Kenji Kawai as Ensign Eguchi |
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Keinosuke Wada as Ensign Nakatani |
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Minoru Arita as Lieutenant Kato |
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Hiroshi Kondō as |
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Hiroshi Ogasawara as Ensign Suzuki |
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Tadashi Suganuma as Officer Katahira |
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Tetsu Nakamura as |
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Teruo Wakatsuki as |
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Ikkō Ōkuni as Veteran |
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Eisuke Sakauchi as |
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Eizaburô Sakauchi as |
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Kyōzō Fuyuki as |
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Michisaburō Segawa as |
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Masao Takamatsu as |
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Tatsuhiro Oka as |
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Fumindo Matsuo as |
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Hiroshi Ayukawa as |
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Yōji Misaki as |
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Fumio Hara as |
| Editing | Toshio Goto | Editor |
| Production | Munehide Tanabe | Executive Producer |
| Production | Katsuzô Shino | Producer |
| Production | Toshio Mochizuki | Producer |
| Writing | Mitsuru Yoshida | Original Story |
| Writing | Toshio Yasumi | Screenplay |
| Camera | Minoru Yokoyama | Director of Photography |
| Lighting | Ko Fujibayashi | Lighting Technician |
| Art | Seigo Shindo | Art Direction |
| Sound | Yasushi Akutagawa | Original Music Composer |
| Directing | Yutaka Abe | Director |
| Directing | Kiyoshi Komori | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Keinosuke Tsuchiya | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Michiyoshi Doi | Assistant Director |
| Sound | Masakazu Kamiya | Sound Recordist |
