In April 1945, the Yamato is assigned to participate in Operation Ten-Go, a suicide mission to Okinawa. Elsewhere, the Yamato, now serving as the flagship of Takeo Kurita's Center Force, withdraws from Leyte without having engaged in battle. Off Cape Engaño, the Zuikaku is sunk, and Eiichi is among the casualties as he had given his life jacket to Shinji, Masato's younger brother, who was assigned to the ship as a navigator. Eiichi returns home to Japan and marries his fiancée, but is soon recalled to participate in the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Several months later, after the Guadalcanal campaign, Yamamoto is assassinated as American pilots intercept and shoot down his plane. Following this, Yamamoto assembles the Kido Butai in order to mount a massive naval strike at Midway, but the Japanese carrier force is met and sunk by the US carriers. Not long afterwards, the Americans launch a counterstrike on Japan in the Doolittle Raid. He is assigned to the ship as a launch pilot. In February 1942, the battleship Yamato is designated as Yamamoto's flagship, and Takeichi is drafted as a reservist. The raid is a success, but is tempered by the absence of the American carrier fleet. A year later, his friend, Eiichi Hongo, is promoted to naval lieutenant.ĭuring the attack on Pearl Harbor, Eiichi is in the raid as part of a Val dive bomber crew from the aircraft carrier Zuikaku. Masato Odagiri, son of shipwright Takeichi Odgairi, graduates from the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy.
In 1940, despite the opposition of the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto ( Keiju Kobayashi) and other officers, Japan signs the Tripartite Pact with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy as it prepares for expansion in Southeast Asia. The film is a retelling of the downfall of Japan's Imperial Navy during World War II.
Imperial Navy ( 連合艦隊, Rengo kantai ) is a 1981 Japanese war film directed by Shue Matsubayashi.
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