New Yamato movie

[Monitor]

The Japanese are making a new movie about the Yamato.

http://www.yamato-movie.jp

[Monitor]

They built a model in 1:1 scale for the movie.

http://www.oshipee.com/omami/e-frame-photo.htm

[Ulrich Rudofsky]

More YAMATO.


http://homepage1.nifty.com/watakan/yama ... index.html

http://www.yamato-movie.jp/making.html

[Pax Melmacia]

I hope the producers don't use the same chestnuts Hollywood has for its cookie-cutter MTV-generation action movies: Wire stunts, explosions every thirty seconds, thunderclaps when a scene changes, dizzying camera work, 18-inch shells flying through the air in slow motion, bad-a** heroes calmly walking away from an explosion in slo-mo.

And this trailer . . . (to be read by a ten foot chain-smoker)

"One nation. One navy. They took on the wrong guys. And now they must fight back. (Thunderclap) This summer, Cliche Productions brings you (Thunderclap) The Biggest (TC) The Baddest (TC) The Most Terrifying Thing Afloat (Three TCs) . . . "

Guys, if everybody's doing it, then it's O-L-D.

(Sorry. Hadda get it off my chest . . .)

[Pax Melmacia]

Wow! I'm blown away by the news!

I hope they have a subtitled/dubbed version soon. The Japanese version of 'Das Boot'?

I recall some Japanese-made war movies I saw when I was a teen. It was refreshing to view things from 'their' side, which is devoid of propaganda (Which is more than we can say about some Hollywood products). Sadly, the production values were not much better than the Toho Films monster movies. (Aircraft, for example, were clearly off-the-shelf, out-of-the-box models.) But I hold high hopes for the Yamato movie.

(This despite the fact that my country was occupied by Japan during the war.)

[Pax Melmacia]

They built a model in 1:1 scale for the movie.

Hm. I wonder if there's an off-chance this is the same 'dry-land' Yamato deck and superstructure set they used in the opening scene of 'Tora-Tora-Tora"?

Man, that would have been a bear to store all these years . . .

[Zaku II]

Hm. I wonder if there's an off-chance this is the same 'dry-land' Yamato deck and superstructure set they used in the opening scene of 'Tora-Tora-Tora"?

The ship portrait in Tora Tora Tora is the battleship Nagato, not Yamato

Salu2 Leonardo

[Karl Heidenreich]

For what it seems it will be great!
It seems to me that Japan is revisiting it´s history without remorse, which is better because they don´t have to be with apologies every three scenes.
When is due to hit the theatres.
Is there a translation web site?

[Karl Heidenreich]

Look at this, just awesome:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU9GokQcgQM


What do you think?

[Karl Heidenreich]

And this also:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1c2aHHel ... ed&search=

It from the movie Yamato. The FX are incredible. The story look like very good too.

[RF]

The Japanese are making a new movie about the Yamato.

This will be interesting given the Japanese prediliction for erasing the memory of WW2.

I wonder what the angle or plot will be?

[VeenenbergR]

I bought the movie and showed at it using my new Plasma TV-set and new Cambridge/ KEF surround set:

- when the huge Yamato fired its main armament shooting the "Beehive" shells at the incoming swarms of deadly US naval aircraft I was rocked out of my chair by the sheer rumbling thunder. WOW .....but saw no aircraft being falling down.

In the movie Yamato uses her mighty guns 3 times, scoring no hits at all!!!!

So don't say this is a chauvinistic movie showing us a "killer beast".

In contrary: the Yamato was a slaughterhouse. The US planes rooring in at will and devastating the large AA-defences with massive and destructive bombs while the Japanese AA-crews were butchered behind their powerless 50 x triple 25 mm guns (each operated by 9 men).

That these guns "suffer from sustained fire" as was given by an expert on this forum is clearly visisble: after being decimated behind their guns their was a big problem in supplying the guns during the blood-stained decks.

Human blood splashes all over the Yamato. It was pure hell.

Only 10 US planes were dawned at an enormous cost of 5000 Japanese lives and huge material losses. Leyte all over again.

Great movie, not nationalistic at all, even Japanese seems to be common humans. Good for US public which always see Japanese like an inferior race of yelling Tatatakata's and Germans always as cruel or robotlike Nazi's.