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
Shoji Nakayama
Unknown
Kenji Kawai
Ensign Eguchi
Keinosuke Wada
Ensign Nakatani
Minoru Arita
Lieutenant Kato
Hiroshi Kondō
Unknown
Hiroshi Ogasawara
Ensign Suzuki
Tadashi Suganuma
Officer Katahira
Tetsu Nakamura
Unknown
Teruo Wakatsuki
Unknown
Ikkō Ōkuni
Veteran
Eisuke Sakauchi
Unknown
Eizaburô Sakauchi
Unknown
Kyōzō Fuyuki
Unknown
Michisaburō Segawa
Unknown
Masao Takamatsu
Unknown
Tatsuhiro Oka
Unknown
Fumindo Matsuo
Unknown
Hiroshi Ayukawa
Unknown
Yōji Misaki
Unknown
Fumio Hara
Unknown
Crew
Yutaka Abe
Director
Toshio Yasumi
Screenplay
Toshio Goto
Editor
Minoru Yokoyama
Director of Photography
Kiyoshi Komori
Assistant Director
Keinosuke Tsuchiya
Assistant Director
Michiyoshi Doi
Assistant Director
Munehide Tanabe
Executive Producer
Katsuzô Shino
Producer
Toshio Mochizuki
Producer
Masakazu Kamiya
Sound Recordist
Ko Fujibayashi
Lighting Technician
Yasushi Akutagawa
Original Music Composer
Mitsuru Yoshida
Original Story
Seigo Shindo
Art Direction