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
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
Kenji Kawai
Ensign Eguchi
Fires on the Plain
Jacknife
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
The Scarlet and the Black
Fires Were Started
Letters from Iwo Jima
Waiting for Anya
Ararat
Anatahan
Birdy
The Kill Team
Men in War
An Ordinary Man
The One That Got Away
King Rat
Field of Lost Shoes
Battleground
Outlaws - For Greater Glory
Seal Team Eight: Behind Enemy Lines
Flags of Our Fathers