The film is about the Yamato's suicide mission to Okinawa in March 1945 to defend the homeland threatened by U.S. bombers. Adapted from Mitsuru Yoshida's 1952 book "Requiem for the Battleship Yamato".
Producer: Toshio Mochizuki, Katsuzô Shino
Director of Photography: Minoru Yokoyama
Director: Yutaka Abe
Screenplay: Toshio Yasumi