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 |
| Art | Seigo Shindo | Art Direction |
| Writing | Mitsuru Yoshida | Original Story |
| Production | Toshio Mochizuki | Producer |
| Camera | Minoru Yokoyama | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Keinosuke Tsuchiya | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Yutaka Abe | Director |
| Sound | Yasushi Akutagawa | Original Music Composer |
| Directing | Michiyoshi Doi | Assistant Director |
| Production | Munehide Tanabe | Executive Producer |
| Lighting | Ko Fujibayashi | Lighting Technician |
| Production | Katsuzō Shino | Producer |
| Writing | Toshio Yasumi | Screenplay |
| Directing | Kiyoshi Komori | Assistant Director |
| Sound | Masakazu Kamiya | Sound Recordist |
