Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet

About Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (1884-1943) was the Japanese Naval commander who was given the order to attack Pearl Harbour, an order he was duty bound to obey which went against his own personal beliefs. While this infamous attack is a low point in Japanese and US history it wouldn’t have happened if the Japanese government had listened to Yamamoto in 1939 and searched for a more peaceful way to end th…

Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet (2011) is a history war film directed by Izuru Narushima. It runs 135 minutes and was released in December 2011.

Koji Yakusho stars as Isoroku Yamamoto, Hiroshi Abe as Yamaguchi Tamon, Akira Emoto as Yoneuchi, and Hiroshi Tamaki as Toshikazu Shindo. Written by Kenzaburô Iida and Yasuo Hasegawa.

Members will find pacific war, attack, navy, and shōwa era (1926-89) in it.

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