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Movie: Admiral Yamamoto / Admiral Yamamoto – The Untold Story of the Pacific War
Romaji: Rengou Kantai Shireichoukan Yamamoto Isoroku
Japanese: 聯合艦隊司令長官山本五十六
Director: Izuru Narushima
Writer: Yasuo Hasegawa, Kenzaburo Iida
Producer: Shohei Kotaki
Cinematographer: Takahide Shibanushi, Hiroshi Futsuta
Release Date: December 23, 2011
Runtime: 140 min.
Distributor: Toei
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Plot

In the late 1930's (Show Period 14), two sides in Japan are conflicted between joining Germany and Italy in a military alliance. At this time, Isoroku Yamamoto, who strongly opposed the alliance, is appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet. The following year, on September 27, Japan, Germany and Italy form the Axis alliance.

Isoroku Yamamoto leads the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The attack's main purpose is to gain an early peace settlement. The surprise military strike appeared successful and caused massive damage, but US aircraft carriers were not damaged in the assault. After the attack the Axis alliance initially saw advances without any defeats.

By April 18, 1942 (Show Period 17), formations of U.S. B-25B bombers, flown from an U.S. aircraft carrier, attacked the Japanese mainland for the first time. The Japanese military responded by carrying out their Midway operation, but that strategy failed. As a result, the Japanese military lost 4 aircraft carriers.

The U.S. army were encourage by the victory against Japan and proceeded to carry out a landing operation on Guadalcanal. The Japanese and U.S. military fought fiercely. Besides the toll from fighting the U.S. military, the Japanese military suffered from starvation, dehydration and diseases while on Guadalcanal. The Japanese military were nearing collapse on Guadalcanal before Isoroku Yamamoto gave the order to withdraw to save more lives.

After the completion of the withdrawal from Guadalcanal, Isoroku Yamamoto flew on an airplane to make moral boosting visits to soldiers on the front line. His plane would be intercepted by the U.S. military.

Notes

Based on the life of Isoroku Yamamoto - Japanese Naval Marshal General and the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II.

Cast

Koji Yakusho

Isoroku Yamamoto



Hiroshi Tamaki	Akira Emoto	Toshiro Yanagiba	Hiroshi Abe	Eisaku Yoshida
Toshikazu Shindo	Yonai Mitsumasa	Shigeyoshi Inoue	Tamon Yamaguchi	Yoshitake Miyake



Kippei Shiina	Takeo Nakahara	Ikuji Nakamura	Mitsugoro Bando	Mieko Harada
Kameto Kuroshima	Chuichi Nagumo	Matome Ugaki	Teikichi Hori	Reiko Yamamoto



Asaka Seto	Rena Tanaka	Toru Masuoka	Yoshihiko Hakamada	Shunji Igarashi
Shizu Taniguchi	Yoshie Kanzaki	Shiro Kusano	Yusaku Akiyama	Koichi Makino



Masato Ibu	Kenji Kawahara	Nobuko Miyamoto	Masahiro Usui	Teruyuki Kagawa
Osami Nagano	Keiji Arima	Kazuko Takahashi	Takashi Saeki	Keikiyoshi Munakata

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Comment #1
Showa 20 Says:
Nov 15 2011 8:11 am

Most people know Admiral Yamamoto as the main architect of the Pearl Harbor attack, and yet only a few people know that he has an encyclopedic knowledge in geography, that's why he also subscribed to the best geographical journal in the 1930s- National Geographic.