The Battleship Yamato
0 %|Jun 15, 1953|Drama, War
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".
Featured Crew
Minoru Yokoyama
Director of Photography
Kiyoshi Komori
Assistant Director
Toshio Yasumi
Screenplay
Seigo Shindo
Art Direction
Toshio Mochizuki
Producer
Michiyoshi Doi
Assistant Director
Masakazu Kamiya
Sound Recordist
Ko Fujibayashi
Lighting Technician
Cast
Susumu Fujita
Jiro Nomura
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
Yoshiro Katagiri
Ensign Mori
Kenji Kawai
Ensign Eguchi
Keinosuke Wada
Ensign Nakatani
Minoru Arita
Lieutenant Kato
Hiroshi Ogasawara
Ensign Suzuki
Tadashi Suganuma
Officer Katahira
Ichirō Okuni
Veteran
