
104 minutes
6/15/1953
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".

Susumu Fujita
as Jiro Nomura
Gen Funabashi
as Ensign Yoshimura

Minoru Takada
as 2nd Fleet Commander-in-Chief Ito

Takamaru Sasaki
as Captain Aruga

Toranosuke Ogawa
as Combined Fleet Chief of Staff Kusaka

Bontarō Miake
as Chief army surgeon Yamada

Ichirō Izawa
as Lieutenant Iwao Usubuchi

Akihiko Katayama
as Ensign Nishida

Tadao Takashima
as Ensign Takada
Yoshiro Katagiri
as Ensign Mori

Shoji Nakayama
Kenji Kawai
as Ensign Eguchi
Keinosuke Wada
as Ensign Nakatani
Minoru Arita
as Lieutenant Kato

Hiroshi Kondō

Hiroshi Ogasawara
as Ensign Suzuki
Tadashi Suganuma
as Officer Katahira

Tetsu Nakamura
Teruo Wakatsuki
Ikkō Ōkuni
as Veteran
Eisuke Sakauchi
Eizaburô Sakauchi

Kyōzō Fuyuki
Michisaburō Segawa
Masao Takamatsu
Tatsuhiro Oka
Fumindo Matsuo
Hiroshi Ayukawa
Yōji Misaki
Fumio Hara