Fantastic!

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

I have avoided foreign films due subtitles all my 58 years, no more, films with them are as good as movies you don't need them for, don't be turned off due subtitles, "Yamato" ranks up there with Anne Frank's Diary, if your History oriented, this is my 1st subtitle film I watched straight threw, I now have seven others lined up to watch and will watch having gotten over the stigma of subs, if you felt some thing for Anne Franks story, please, please give in to this movie, you will not in any way be turned off due the subtitles unless your still stigmatized with the fact of reading and understanding what your watching, very few places in this one are you over whelmed with reading to understand, a very meaningful true or based on a true story movie, a very much must watch

On April, 6th 2005, in Makurazi, Kagoshima, Makiko Uchida (Kyôka Suzuki) 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. She meets by chance the captain Katsumi Kamio (Tatsuya Nakadai) of the fishing vessel Asukamaru and discloses that she is the stepdaughter of Officer Nagoya Uchida (Shidô Nakamura) and Kamio immediately accepts to take her in the risky journey. While traveling with Makiko and the fifteen year-old Atsuchi (Sosuke Ikematsu), 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. When they reach the spot where Yamato was sunk, he considers that he finally reached the end of the Shōwa era."Otoko-tachi no Yamato" is a dramatic movie based on the true story of the Battleship Yamato in World War II. This film gives an approach of Japanese relationship in war totally different from the stereotype of American and European movies of this genre that usually treat Japanese soldiers as cold blood killers detached from any emotions. In "Yamato!", the Japanese military are human beings, with beloved ones, families and comradeship between them, giving more credibility to the story. However, director Junya Sato exaggerates in the melodramatic subplots and in many moments the viewer has the sensation of watching a soap-opera instead of a drama. The final battle of Yamato is engaging and one of the best moments of this film. The music score is repetitive and boring and I personally did not like it. Last but not the least, the Shōwa period mentioned by Katsumi Kamio in one of his last lines literally means, in accordance with the Wikipedia, "period of enlightened peace", or Shōwa era, is the period of Japanese history corresponding to the reign of Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito), from December 25th, 1926 to January 7th, 1989. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "Yamato"

I finished watching this film just a few hours ago and decided to take a look what does the IMDb say about the film. Some commentators have claimed that the film has little to offer for non-Japanese viewers. I have to disagree for at least I, a Finn, found the film very close to my heart. Perhaps the fact that both Finns and Japanese have always been forced to fight enemies much larger than our own nations have given us similar courage to fight in spite of all odds. The sailors on Yamato and their calm courage before and during the battle reminds me of our own warriors waiting for another mass attack by Bolsheviks intent on wiping out my nation.What took me by surprise is the outright arrogance of some reviewers when issuing moral judgments from a very shaky ground. After all, should a representative on Communist China really condemn Japanese atrocities and dictatorship when his own regime killed over 50 million of its own citizens? Or how short a memory do those Americans have who are ready to condemn Japan for activity that pales in comparison with the ruthless genocide of American Indians? Or representatives of those European countries who practiced very brutal colonialism for many centuries.As for the film itself, the effects are not particularly great. As is quite typical of CGI, attacking enemy aircraft are unrealistically agile in their movements. But, music was excellent, as was acting. And a big bonus for not succumbing to the political correctness and victors' arrogant brainwashing re-educational propaganda that ruins e.g. modern German war films in particular and historiography in general and which is unfortunately present on so many other reviews.

Superlative - everything a war movie should be.........Well acted with great action scenes - I was aware this was a top Box-Office Hit in japan in December 2005 / early 2006 .........I am delighted to be able to view it after looking forward to this Film since it was first released ,and viewed the Trailers on the Japanese Official Website. I was very pleasedthat the Director was given an award in Japan - this movie deserved being released in the Cinmemas in the UK shame - as so much on the cinema listings is poorly made and banal in a lot of new films