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".
DIRECTOR
CAST

Susumu Fujita
Jiro Nomura
Gen Funabashi
Ensign Yoshimura

Minoru Takada
2nd Fleet Commander-in-Chief Ito

Takamaru Sasaki
Captain Aruga