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Yamato Japan Movie DVD

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Similar to the technique used in the movie "Titanic", this movie presents a historical account of the final days of the WWII Japanese battleship "Yamato" by weaving history around drama in the lives of her crew. The film's dialogue is in Japanese with English subtitles. The subtitles are rather rough around the edges; however, enough gets across for you to follow what's going on. Unlike the storytelling in "Das Boot," this movie sort of "sanitizes" the everyday lives of the ship's crew. Additionally, a couple of cultural idiosyncrasies lost me. Overall, it's an engaging film that history buffs will especially enjoy. Battle scenes are well done and get very gory -- I wouldn't recommend viewing by young kids.

This movie is so well done. I've watched it with my kids many times. It's a very good story, following the lives of a certain number of the Yamato's crew (fictionalized), but consistent with the who the Japanese veterans were. It does honor to fighting men and their families everywhere. Of course, I did remind my kids to remember which side was in the right during the war, but they appreciated the human side of this story. Of course, the recreation of the ship was fantastic - quite an effort. If you are a historian, or naval buff, or modeler, this movie is for you.

Present like a ascendants' recall of a samurai tradition of self-sacrificing for a country, an epic of Japanese ship destroyed by the US Navy is an interesting work depicting the features of a Japanese life not so known by a reviewer from the opposite site of the war.

Less explicitly homoerotic than Das Boot - The Original Uncut Version, it still presents interesting information of ordinary Japanese and military commanders cheating them which was, however, nothing special at then global scale of the WWII.