The Battleship Yamato (1953)

Director: Yutaka Abe

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