Sinking of the Yamato upcoming movie clips
 

Regardless of anything else....I find it sad to see a beautiful ship turned into a wreck. Maybe in another place...Bismarck, Hood, Yamato and Arizona sail together against the horizon, guns silent...and crews happily sleeping forever and not knowing what pain is, anymore.

Well said Kruger.

And thanks for the links John.

really nice ...
thanks

anyone has some more info for this movie ?

the oficial site is in japanese

WOW! I can't wait to see this movie.

Were there any survivors from the Yamato?

There were survivors. Three of the destroyers that weren't sunk by air attack, rescued as many as they could before returning to Japan.

I can't remember how many, but I know there were some as I read a account of the last voyage of the ship.

Here is a link to the film's website http://www.yamato-movie.jp/top/index.html
I read recently that the film was to be shown at the Montreal Film Festival which is happening as we "speak". Presumably that means they may have produced some English/French subtitles, lets hope it finds its way on to DVD at some point soon.

I don't know if subtitles are necessary; one doesn't need to know Japanese, to figure that the characters in these clips are most likely saying something along the lines of "&^*$# !, we're in a heap of @#$* now !

:lol:

Hmmm....I think I will inform the Powers That Be at Otakon to see if maybe they could screen this, next year, if it hasn't been theatrically released.

Akira Kurasowa
 

Japan has a great history of quality film making. This isn't exactly Seven Samurai, but technically impressive. The film-makers are certainly not guilty of over-sentimentalising like the Americans and it certainly gets across the old adage of War is Hell!

Musashi
 

I wonder if we can sink those ships in SHIV. Musashi took 20 eels and 17 bombs

Pffft. Everyone knows battleships go down with one hit to the fuel bunker :p

Hard to say until the movie is actually released. Japan has never been and still isn't, prone to acknowledging their part in/before WW2.

It could very well have a "poor IJN ship was picked on for no reason by the warmongering US Navy" theme for all we know.

Or not. Time will tell.

In a "kinda related note", I was behind a new Hyundai Elantra today, and the license plate said "Pearl Harbor Survivor". I wanted to follow the guy until he stopped, so I could thank him, but I figured he'd think I was some sort of stalker or something. :p

It would be awesome if he turned out to be Japanese :p