The Battleship Yamato (1953)

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 (30)CrewGenresDetailsReleasesMediaAwards

Susumu Fujita

Jiro Nomura

G

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

Y

Yoshiro Katagiri

Ensign Mori

Shoji Nakayama

K

Kenji Kawai

Ensign Eguchi

K

Keinosuke Wada

Ensign Nakatani

M

Minoru Arita

Lieutenant Kato

Hiroshi Kondō

Hiroshi Ogasawara

Ensign Suzuki

T

Tadashi Suganuma

Officer Katahira

Tetsu Nakamura

T

Teruo Wakatsuki

I

Ikkō Ōkuni

Veteran

E

Eisuke Sakauchi

E

Eizaburô Sakauchi

Kyōzō Fuyuki

M

Michisaburō Segawa

M

Masao Takamatsu

T

Tatsuhiro Oka

F

Fumindo Matsuo

H

Hiroshi Ayukawa

Y

Yōji Misaki

F

Fumio Hara

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