Rengō Kantai Shirei Chōkan: Yamamoto Isoroku (2011)

Original title

聯合艦隊司令長官 山本五十六 – 太平洋戦争70年目の真実

Directed by

Izuru Narushima

Genre

drama film

Country

Japan

Runtime

2h 20m

Rated

16

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 41 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This film follows the life of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the Japanese naval commander during World War II. It shows his strategic decisions and the personal toll of the war.

biographicalwartimemelancholiccontemplativestoichistoricalsomberquietly intense

What happens

Isoroku (Japanese: 聯合艦隊司令長官 山本五十六 -太平洋戦争70年目の真実-, Hepburn: Rengō Kantai Shirei Chōkan Yamamoto Isoroku: Taiheiyō Sensō Nanajū-nenme no Shinjitsu; lit. "Combined Fleet Commander Isoroku Yamamoto: Truth of the Pacific War 70 Years Ago") is a 2011 Japanese biographical film about Isoroku Yamamoto, the Imperial Japanese Navy's (IJN) Marshal Admiral and the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II. Other English home media titles of the film are The Admiral, and Admiral Yamamoto. English titles not used in home video releases are Yamamoto Isoroku, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet and Admiral Isoroku. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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