The Great War of Archimedes

Jul 26, 2019

2h 10m

★ 6.6

Overview

It is the early 1930s and the command of the Japanese Imperial Navy determines to construct the world's biggest and most formidable battleship, Yamato. One of the admirals, Yamamoto Isoroku, disagrees. He recruits the upstart and mathematics' expert Tadashi Kai who discovers there are discrepancies between the official cost estimates and the actual figures. They soon find out that they have stumbled upon a conspiracy.

Genres

War

Action

Mystery

Drama

Production Companies

Robot Communications

TOHO

Abe Shuji

The Asahi Shimbun

Culture Entertainment

dentsu

GYAO

Hikari TV

Jiji Press

KDDI

Kinoshita Group

Kodansha

Lawson

Mainichi Newspapers

Nippon Broadcasting System

Nippon Television Network Corporation

Shirogumi

Tokyu Agency

Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation

Nippan Group Holdings

The Great War of Archimedes Trailers

Cast

Major Tadashi Kai

Masaki Suda

Second Lt. Shojiro Tanaka

Tasuku Emoto

Kyoko Ozaki

Minami Hamabe

Kiyoshi Osato

Tsurube Shofukutei

Mineo Osumi

Katsuya Kobayashi

Sekizo Uno

Fumiyo Kohinata

Osami Nagano

Jun Kunimura

Shigetaro Shizuma

Isao Hashizume

Tadamichi Hirayama

Min Tanaka

Isoroku Yamamoto

Hiroshi Tachi

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