Product Description

In April of 1945, the Japanese military command sent its prize battleship on an impossible kamikaze mission; to defeat a large US fleet off the coast of Japan. Her name was the Yamato and she was the largest and most technologically advanced battleship in history. With guns of awesome calibre, massive armour, she was considered to be virtually unsinkable. Yet she would be sunk, in just four hours, during one of the last naval battles of World War II. This is the story of the Battleship Yamato, its creation as the flagship of Japanese naval power, its part in the battle of Midway, up to its last suicide sortie and of how its recent discovery has shed light on its final moments. In 1999 a Japanese salvage crew set off on a multi-million dollar mission to find the final resting place of the pride of Japan. Three hundred and fifty metres down, the Yamato lay largely intact on the floor of the South China Sea. Some of the first ever pictures of the remains of history's largest battleship offer not only a solemn tribute to the brave sailors who died for their country, but also a clue to a mystery what actually happened in the final moments of the Yamato?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #35541 in DVD
• Released on: 2008-06-07
• Rating: Exempt
• Formats: Dolby, PAL, Widescreen
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 50 minutes

Customer Reviews

Very Disappointing
Basically, don't buy this dvd! Much of the information is inaccurate. For instance, the whole production gives the impression theere was only one battleship conceived of this size, when of course, there were four, so no mention is made of her sistership Musashi. Also the impression is given that Yamato spent much of it's time lying up, so again, no metion is made of Yamato's part battle of Leyte Gulf, her part ibn sinking aircraft carriers, nor, more interestingly, what might have been possible with a more vigorous attack.
The graphis are terribl;e, like something created when Thunderbirds was made, and the human acting of the ship supposedly sinking woeful.
There are a few scattered interesting facts, like the design of the bow, and that apparently all the crew were drunk the night before sinking...wasthis the real reason she sunk so 'quickly' as the dvd tells you it will uncover the reason for her sinking...although tells you nothing, apart fronm torpedoes were all aimed at same side to create a sudden capsize?
As for the 'mysterious' sudden exposion when sunk, a 'reconstruction' tell us it was the magazines....wow!
Also the footage of the sunken battleship is very poor and unenlightening, and the interviews with survivors disappointing.
Enough?