2011 film about the life of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto from the early 1930's to his death at the hands of the US military in 1943.
I don't know enough about Yamamoto to comment on how accurate the film is regarding him. It does portray him as seeing the war as being futile.
My video excerpt from "The Eternal Zero" has sparked a lot of comment so I thought I'd tempt fate :) and post a clip from this movie - Yamamoto's death.
A review on IMDB (by polokd) says "For a home-grown Japanese war movie, Yamamoto Isoroku (2011) is perhaps the most neutral, and historically accurate of Japanese movies. For once, it actually contains few historical biases, and portrays both the social and historical impacts in the way the Japan turned to the decision to wage war.
Though subtle, the movie makes reference to the Boshin War, a civil war in Japan that greatly divided the big families into two main camps: pro-Shogun and pro-Emperor between 1868-1869. Yamamoto belonging to the Nagato clan, clear rivalries exist and continued into early WWII.
Civilian life, while fairly quickly glossed over, shows the impact and the growth of patriotic nationalism, and politically motivated newspapers that ride on the wave of popularity. It is only when the war begins to turn for the bad (post 1944) does the public begin to realize the impact of the war, and how bad it is going for them - the war in Manchuria being a far away war that many do not feel the impact."
The clip should have some English subs but the original is an mkv file with hard-codded subs and (as usual with mkvs) its virtually impossible to get the subs to display when editing. It's only a couple of lines that are missing so no real loss.
I enjoyed the film. Worth buying a copy :)
