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The Battleship Yamato

1953·104 min

The Battleship Yamato

Directed by Yutaka Abe

DramaWar

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".

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Jiro Nomura

Ensign Yoshimura

2nd Fleet Commander-in-Chief Ito

Takamaru Sasaki

Captain Aruga

Crew

Toshio Mochizuki

Producer

Minoru Yokoyama

Director of Photography

Yasushi Akutagawa

Original Music Composer

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Toranosuke Ogawa

Combined Fleet Chief of Staff Kusaka

Chief army surgeon Yamada

Lieutenant Iwao Usubuchi

Akihiko Katayama

Ensign Nishida

Tadao Takashima

Ensign Takada

Yoshiro Katagiri

Ensign Mori

Ensign Eguchi

Ensign Nakatani

Lieutenant Kato

Hiroshi Ogasawara

Ensign Suzuki

Tadashi Suganuma

Officer Katahira

Teruo Wakatsuki

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The Battleship Yamato (1953) is about 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".

Who directed The Battleship Yamato?

Yutaka Abe directed The Battleship Yamato (1953).

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