They manage to take what is often a clichéd script and to infuse it with the power of reality. There is a great many other thematic threads running through this film that lift it out of the typical war movie pile. Even the survivors, the old man essentially telling the story, is haunted by the fact that he lived and everyone else died.As the film asks plainly, if we all die, who's going to be around to take advantage of our sacrifices? Its a question that needs to be asked in this age of suicide bombers. Its a difference that all of the men can see but which very few ever get the chance to live by. Bushido, he says is preparing for a death with no reward, Chivalry is trying to live a noble life. One of the officers is asked to explain the difference between chivalry, the Western code of war, and Bushido, the Japanese code. Its best expressed in a simple scene on the bridge of the ship. Its made clear that the fight to the end mentality leaves no room for tomorrow. At the same time we get to see the waste that is war and was the Japanese war effort in the final days of World War Two. We really do care about the characters we see up on the screen, and what happens to them, death in a foolish adventure, moves us. For all of the clichés (is there a well worn plot device it doesn't have?) it does manage to touch the heart and the head. It examines why men fight and what can we hope to get out of war. This is a story of youthful idealism tinged and changed by the course of war and a culture that celebrates death in battle as something glorious. Told in flashback as memories are provoked in a survivor by a woman, the daughter of another survivor, wanting to visit the final resting place on the 60th anniversary of its sinking. Huge scale tale of the battleship Yamato and its crew. Reviewed by dbborroughs 7 / 10 Good war film that questions the need to fight to the end while paying tribute to fallen comrades When they reach the spot where Yamato was sunk, he considers that he finally reached the end of the Showa era.-Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil While traveling with Makiko and the fifteen year-old Atsuchi, Kamio recalls and discloses the story of Yamato and his close friends that served on board of the battleship until the final suicidal mission in Okinawa. She meets by chance the captain Katsumi Kamio of the fishing vessel Asukamaru and discloses that she is the stepdaughter of Officer Nagoya Uchida and Kamio immediately accepts to take her in the risky journey. On April, 6th 2005, in Makurazi, Kagoshima, Makiko Uchida seeks a boat in the local fishing cooperative to take her to the latitude N30, longitude L128, where the largest, heaviest and most powerfully armed battleships ever constructed Yamato was sunk on April, 7th 1945 however, her request is denied.
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