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Otoko-tachi no Yamato (2005) More at IMDbPro »

• Factual errors: The ship is seen firing salvos from its main batteries aimed at approaching US aircraft on several occasions, while lots of the crew are visible on deck, manning the light AA guns as well as performing other duties. While the big guns were in fact used fending off aircraft, at least during the last battle off Okinawa, the shock wave from the blast of the nine 456 mm barrels (the biggest ever on a warship) could kill or severely injure an unprotected sailor, it was therefore forbidden to remain on deck on such occasions.
  
  
• Continuity: If you look carefully at the aircraft during the battle scene, several Avengers (torpedo bombers) and Hellcats (fighters) switch places with a single-seat, bubble canopied aircraft with round wing and vertical stabilizer ends. The aircraft that best fits the "mystery" plane is a P-47, which was never a US Navy fighter plane, and certainly wasn't used during the aerial attacks on Yamato and her group on April 7th, 1945. Hellcats and Avengers both had square wing- and vertical stabilizer tips.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Most of the 25mm AA guns do not recoil when fired. Neither do the guns of the 5" batteries
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: During the final battle scene, at least one fully loaded 25mm magazine is removed from the guns prior to reloading. In combat, gun crews would have continued shooting until either a lull in the fighting occurred, or the magazines ran dry. In the scene in question, the crew is reloading under fire.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: During the credits, the view shifts between underwater and "historical" scenes. In one underwater scene, one of this ship's port side gun houses is in view. The corresponding "historical" view fades to one of the ship's 5" mounts (2 guns/ mount). In the underwater scene, there are clearly 3 openings for cannon in the gun house. This means the mount in the underwater view is a 25mm gun house.
  
  
• Factual errors: At least one attacking US plane in the film has the fat black and white "three stripe" pattern on the wings and body. While it is an authentic period detail visible on many old images, it wasn't used in the Pacific. Wrong side of the world! The high-visibility black-white pattern was used during the D-Day invasion to make it easier for Allied pilots and antiaircraft crews to avoid firing upon "friendly" aircraft. (The more discreet chevron mark on Coalition vehicles during Gulf War I had a similar purpose.)
  
  

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