Yamato

Yamato

2005 · 143 min · JA · 5.5 (41 votes)
Dir. Junya Satō · Starring Takashi Sorimachi, Shido Nakamura, Yu Aoi, Noboru Takachi, Junichi Haruta, Ryô Hashizume · Music Joe Hisaishi
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Directed by Junya Sato and based on a book by Jun Henmi, "Yamato" has a framing story set in the present day and uses flashbacks to tell the story of the crew of the World War II Japanese battleship Yamato. The film was never released in the United States, where reviewers who have seen it have compared the military epic to "Titanic" and "Saving Private Ryan."

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A sweeping, somber tribute to a doomed vessel and its crew. It's a grand, melancholic naval epic that feels both heroic and tragic, capturing the immense scale and human cost of war.

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