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".
藤田進
as Jiro Nomura
舟橋元
as Ensign Yoshimura
高田稔
as 2nd Fleet Commander-in-Chief Ito
佐々木孝丸
as Captain Aruga
小川虎之助
as Combined Fleet Chief of Staff Kusaka
見明凡太朗
as Chief army surgeon Yamada
伊沢一郎
as Lieutenant Iwao Usubuchi
片山明彦
as Ensign Nishida
高島忠夫
as Ensign Takada
Yoshiro Katagiri
as Ensign Mori
中山昭二
as
Kenji Kawai
as Ensign Eguchi
