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".

Drama War

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