The Battleship Yamato

Name: The Battleship Yamato
Director: Yutaka Abe
Genre: Drama, War
Released: 1953-06-15
Duration: 1 h 44 min
Cast: Susumu Fujita, Gen Funabashi, Minoru Takada, Takamaru Sasaki, Toranosuke Ogawa

1953

1h 44m

Drama War

Director: Yutaka Abe

Writer: Toshio Yasumi

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".