The Battleship Yamato
1953, Japanese. Directed by 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".
- Runtime
- 1h 44m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Japanese
- Rated
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Cast & crew
- Yutaka AbeDirector
- Susumu FujitaJiro Nomura
- Gen FunabashiEnsign Yoshimura
- Minoru Takada2nd Fleet Commander-in-Chief Ito
- Takamaru SasakiCaptain Aruga
- Toranosuke OgawaCombined Fleet Chief of Staff Kusaka
- Bontarō MiakeChief army surgeon Yamada
- Ichirō IzawaLieutenant Iwao Usubuchi
- Akihiko KatayamaEnsign Nishida
- Tadao TakashimaEnsign Takada
- Yoshiro KatagiriEnsign Mori
- Shoji NakayamaCast
- Kenji KawaiEnsign Eguchi
Details
- Released
- 15 June 1953
- Original title
- 戰艦大和
- Country
- Japan
- Written by
- Toshio Yasumi
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The Battleship Yamato runs 104 minutes (1h 44m).
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The Battleship Yamato isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 15 June 1953. (Checked 12 November 2026.)
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Who directed The Battleship Yamato?
The Battleship Yamato (1953) was directed by Yutaka Abe and stars Susumu Fujita, Gen Funabashi, Minoru Takada.