Behind the Scenes
For executive producer Keiko Bang, who is half Japanese, half American, making this film was deeply cathartic.

Survivor Stories
Fifty years later, two
Japanese sailors offer
eyewitness accounts of
Yamato's last battle.

Anatomy of Yamato
See what made this super battleship both seemingly unsinkable and highly vulnerable to attack.

Yamato's Final Voyage
Relive the supership's last moments as American warplanes relentlessly strafed, bombed, and torpedoed it.

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