The Battleship Yamato
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".
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
Shoji Nakayama
Kenji Kawai
Ensign Eguchi
Keinosuke Wada
Ensign Nakatani
Minoru Arita
Lieutenant Kato
Hiroshi Kondō
Hiroshi Ogasawara
Ensign Suzuki
Tadashi Suganuma
Officer Katahira
Tetsu Nakamura
Teruo Wakatsuki
Ikkō Ōkuni
Veteran
Eisuke Sakauchi
Eizaburô Sakauchi
Kyōzō Fuyuki
Michisaburō Segawa
Masao Takamatsu
Tatsuhiro Oka
Fumindo Matsuo
Hiroshi Ayukawa
Yōji Misaki
Fumio Hara
Crew
Toshio Goto
Editor
Seigo Shindo
Art Direction
Mitsuru Yoshida
Original Story
Masakazu Kamiya
Sound Recordist
Toshio Mochizuki
Producer
Minoru Yokoyama
Director of Photography
Keinosuke Tsuchiya
Assistant Director
Yutaka Abe
Director
Yasushi Akutagawa
Original Music Composer
Michiyoshi Doi
Assistant Director
Munehide Tanabe
Executive Producer
Ko Fujibayashi
Lighting Technician
Katsuzô Shino
Producer
Toshio Yasumi
Screenplay
Kiyoshi Komori
Assistant Director