Film: Yamato the last battle
 

Never heard of this film, seems to be made in 2005 and received very good ctitics!
Shown 17. Dezember 2005, it is the most successful film in Japan (in term of revenue) to date.

Originaltitle: Otoko-tachi no Yamato
Actors: Takashi Sorimachi, Shido Nakamura
Regie: Junya Sato
http://www.rzmovies.ch/ressources/co...ront/12511.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=q4QWqDTCk2A


This is more of a drama film than a "battle film" - there was no big battle when 250 USN planes came down on it at the same time... they shot it to pieces (intrestinly enough, the AAA did not manage to hit a single USN plane; This astonishing failure is attributed to the lack of war training of the past months by some, to the high alcohol consumption the evening before which lasted until the early morning hours by others).


OK after having seen it, I would rank it in the category "Titanic drama", it is a very nice and touching film!!!!!



~S~

Another good Japanese film (with English subtitles) is Last Operations Under the Orion

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

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Thanks Salmo, I will search for it :)

another movie watch searching for about Kamikaze
"For Those We Love"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jem2wmMGCow

Wut? The Japanese aren't allowed their Afleck & Hartnett? ;)

I'm aware it's more of a drama piece and on some trailers, they show the triple 25's (?) firing with no recoil. (For some reason, it brings flashbacks of the old Godzilla films using scale models!)

Drinking the night before? In a ship of 2,600 plus it is extremely difficult to keep a one way mission voyage a secret. Can you blame them? For all the hype of their fanatacism, they were still human.

With all that, I'd still like to see this when I can get a hold of it.

They had no Honor.

Two films I found interesting due to the fact they are the same story told from opposite sides. First one is Flags of Our Fathers, told the American story of the battle and the raising of the American flag (famous propaganda photo). Then Letters from Iwo Jima, tells the brave but hopeless defense by the Japanese. Bouth films were directed by Clint Eastwood.

Masterclass! Two of the best!

Sorry for hijacking this thread, but can some of our Russian speaking fellows tranlsate the Movie Title for me. Thx in advance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw4ZJ...eature=related

Wew CGI are awsome with good physics. Wish we hve more of that quality.

No problem with "hijacking", thanks for posting a Youtube 2hr movie :)
I am downloading it now (and hope our Russian comrades will give us a translation soon so that I can download the subtitles as well ;) )

I have another movie:

Fortress Brest (2011) Russian movie, looks like a nice drama.

The real story: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_of_Brest_Fortress

The official trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4eODo-WfUs


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Bleh, Brest Fortress is a Russian propaganda movie. There was a scene where a wave of Russians with rifles, handgrenades, and chair legs destroyed an emplaced defensive line of Germans with Pz3's and machine guns. No thx

Pity!
...could you not have posted this before me downloading the whole movie??? :D

Yup that was exactly the reason why i asked for an transaltion, if i have an English Title, i can search for the subs. ;)

I found another good Movie for you at Youtube.
Its about the Finnish Winter war.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp0O7...eature=related

So that puts the "Brest" Movie in the same line as those Private Ryan Crap i assume.

..why would Saving Private Ryan be crap? :confused:

Ueber-GIs

Just finished watching it.
Thank you Salmo, it is a great film, I liked it more than Yamato to be honest.
There is a huge amount of disbelief than a Japanese U-boot captain would ever behave like that, but the film was great and the finale even better!

Now, we need to find subtitles for the Russian films, I hope our Russian friends will turn up soon.... ;)

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OK, I have got an interesting one - not everybody's taste:

THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME (1916) (Yes, 1916 is the production year)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0006405/
In 2005 this film was inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register for the preservation of global documentary heritage.

You need to find the version of the film that was digitally restored in 2007-8 by the Imperial War Museum’s Film and Video Archive and Dragon Digital Intermediate. It represents a startling improvement on previously released video versions.

Description
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'The Battle of the Somme' was a pioneering battlefield documentary film made by British official cinematographers Geoffrey Malins and John McDowell in June-July, 1916. Though intended as patriotic propaganda, the film gave, for its time, a graphic portrayal of trench warfare, showing dead and dying British and German soldiers. It was released in early August 1916, barely a month after the events it depicted, and it is estimated that no less than half the population of the UK eventually watched it. It remains one of the most popular British films of all time.

Contemporary cinema-goers hailed it as an opportunity to see the reality of the Western Front for the first time and to share the experiences of the soldiers who were fighting there. The film inaugurated a debate about the on-screen depiction of combat that continues to this day, and is the origin of some of the most widely used and iconic moving images of the First World War.


Actualy, one scene of the film is considered to be fake. There is even a book written about it:
GHOSTS ON THE SOMME: Filming the Battle, June-July 1916
http://www.amazon.com/GHOSTS-ON-THE-.../dp/1844158365
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"Dnieper line"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FojE7iTVP0

http://translate.google.com.br/trans...bezh-2009.html

Sokol1

A WW1 historicaly-based Aussie film Beneath Hil 60

Beneath Hil 60

Then there's the WW2 historically-based film Kokoda. The halting of the Japanese advance from northern New Guinea along the Kokoda track in an effort to take Port Moresby on the southern coast. If Port Moresby was captured, there would be nothing between the Japanese forces & Australia. Before American land forces were deployed to Port Moresby, the track was sucessfully defended & the japanese repelled by poorly trained, ill-equiped, volunteer, "cholocate soldiers" (nick-named 'choco's'). Called so, because it was thought they'd melt in the heat of jungle warfare battle. They didn't!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6_DKFPZxdQ

A few other classic war movies:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAPOp...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmtp5...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs0V_...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzSDk...feature=relmfu

The Fighting Lady (1944)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5JbX...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKPLh...feature=relmfu

TARGET FOR TODAY - 1944 - US 8th Army Air force during World War Two

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuRPP...eature=related

P-47 Thunderbolt squadron during World War II - 1945 US Air Force Documentary

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhN5N...feature=relmfu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LLztDiwlys

add this to your viewlist.

I am impressed gentlemen!

And that all these films are on YouTube!!!! :)

I have some hrs of dowloading in front of me now.... :D

~S~

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB2ntxv9_50

one more to add!!!

I actually thought the thread was about the recent Space Battleship Yamato movie :D


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Row0rYFQCHs

Really like the look of this movie, the gci looks impressive so I just ordered a copy from ebay. Small problem I had to buy a multi region dvd player as well so i can watch it!

It is not a movie, it is a documentary:

BBC The Fall of Singapore, The Great Betrayal (2012)


You will be shocked by the information that was declassified for 80 years!!!!!


~S~

did you, possibly, forget to post a link?

The other posts I see:

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I don't think I'm missing much, and I've no interest in installing the plugin, whatever it may be.

Me?
I am sorry, I do not have a link for this documentary, I did not watch it online.

Hopefuly you may be able to find it in Youtube or elsewhere I presume...


~S~

Interesting video, thanks for the tip.
swiss. The full lenght film is on youtube.

It's not a documentary but a film titled Kamikaze attack on the pacific.

Sorry for my English bad taste.

Which is also called "For those we Love" Its the same movie with a different title.

When you can't watch YouTube Videos then the "Plug in" is the missing Adobe Flash Player