Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet
2011 · 2h 15m · N/A
History, War
Directed by
Izuru Narushima
Overview
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (1884-1943) was the Japanese Naval commander who was given the order to attack Pearl Harbour, an order he was duty bound to obey which went against his own personal beliefs. While this infamous attack is a low point in Japanese and US history it wouldn’t have happened if the Japanese government had listened to Yamamoto in 1939 and searched for a more peaceful way to end their war campaign, proving his many ominous presages of the outcomes of the attack to come true.
Director and cast
- Izuru Narushima Director
- Koji Yakusho as Isoroku Yamamoto
- Hiroshi Abe as Yamaguchi Tamon
- Akira Emoto as Yoneuchi
- Hiroshi Tamaki as Toshikazu Shindo
- Teruyuki Kagawa as Keikiyoshi Munakata
- Bandō Mitsugorō X as Hori
- Nobuko Miyamoto as Yamamoto's mother
- Toshiro Yanagiba as Shigeyoshi Inoue
- Rena Tanaka as Yoshie Kanzaki
- Eisaku Yoshida as Yoshitake Miyake
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