The Great War of Archimedes

Overview

It is the early 1930s and the command of the Japanese Imperial Navy determines to construct the world's biggest and most formidable battleship, Yamato. One of the admirals, Yamamoto Isoroku, disagrees. He recruits the upstart and mathematics' expert Tadashi Kai who discovers there are discrepancies between the official cost estimates and the actual figures. They soon find out that they have stumbled upon a conspiracy.

Directed by Takashi Yamazaki

Top cast

Masaki Suda

Major Tadashi Kai

Tasuku Emoto

Second Lt. Shojiro Tanaka

Minami Hamabe

Kyoko Ozaki

Tsurube Shofukutei

Kiyoshi Osato

Katsuya Kobayashi

Mineo Osumi

Fumiyo Kohinata

Sekizo Uno

Jun Kunimura

Osami Nagano

Isao Hashizume

Shigetaro Shizuma

Min Tanaka

Tadamichi Hirayama

Hiroshi Tachi

Isoroku Yamamoto

Hoshi Ishida

Young officer

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