Yamato
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Directed by	Junya Sato
Produced by	Noriko Koyanagi
Written by	Novel: Jun Henmi Screenplay: Junya Sato
Music by	Joe Hisaishi
Cinematography	Yoshitaka Sakamoto
Editing by	Takero Yoneda
Released	December 17, 2005
Running time	145 min.
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Yamato (男たちの大和, Otoko-tachi no Yamato) is a 2005 Japanese film based on a Jun Henmi novel and directed by Junya Sato.

PlotEdit

At the end of World War II, with hardly any hope left for the Japanese fleet, Yamamoto is sent out on a suicide mission off the coast of Okinawa.

CastEdit

• Takashi Sorimachi ... Shohachi Moriwaki
• Shido Nakamura ... Mamoru Uchida
• Yu Aoi ... Taeko
• Junichi Haruta ... Hisao Koike
• Ryo Hashidume ... Yoshiharu Kojima
• Ryuzo Hayashi ... Ryunosuke Kusaka
• Hiroyuki Hirayama ... Tamaki
• Hirotarō Honda ... Tetsuzo Furumura
• Hisashi Igawa ... The Chairman
• Sosuke Ikematsu ... Atsushi
• Kenji Kaneko ... Machimura
• Hiroshi Katsuno ... Nobue Morishita
• Ken'ichi Matsuyama ... Katsumi Kamio (15 years old)
• Takashi Morimiya ... Omori
• Kazushige Nagashima ... Usubuchi
• Tatsuya Nakadai ... Katsumi Kamio (75 years old)
• Umitarou Nozaki ... Jiro Nomura
• Eiji Okuda ... Kosaku Ariga
• Hiromi Sakimoto ... Sumio Tsuneta
• Kayoko Shiraishi ... Sue Kamio
• Kyoka Suzuki ... Makiko Uchida
• Noboru Takachi ... Kawazoe
• Atsuko Takahata ... Tsune Tamaki
• Kenji Takaoka ... Shiro Mogi
• Shinobu Terajima ... Ayako
• Kenta Uchino ... Tetsuya Nishi
• Dai Watanabe ... Toshio Date
• Tetsuya Watari ... Seiichi Ito
• Jundai Yamada ... Masao Karaki
• Kimiko Yo ... Sayo Nishi

External linksEdit

• Yamato review at The Japan Times