A Japanese film about Yamato?

rabbiteatsnake

Member since
February 2005
From: California

A Japanese film about Yamato?

Posted by rabbiteatsnake on Monday, May 18, 2009 5:33 AM

awhile back a coworker brought in a DVD to watch at work. some 60's nippo sci fi piece of crud w/ monsters that ran around, and people doing things, stuff blowing up, it ended(mercifully)but then in the extras, a brief unexplained clip of some japanese effects men in a wave tank pushing a huge model of the Yamato (or maybe the Musashi) they step back and cue pyro. Live time simulated tracers are raining down on the ship thats now churning a dandy bow wave. It's guns are rigged to fire and do so while the superstucture is being wracked by remote charges. Then... nothing, no explanation it was just over. This incredible piece of effects filmmaking hung on th end of this turd, with no hint of what it was. I'll try to find out the title of the feature film and maybe someone can find it on a rental.

The devil is in the details...and somtimes he's in my sock drawer. On the bench. Airfix 1/24 bf109E scratch conv to 109 G14AS MPC1/24 ju87B conv to 87G Rev 1/48 B17G toF Trump 1/32 f4u-1D and staying a1D Scratch 1/16 TigerII.

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BlitZ_SWE

Member since
July 2007
From: Malmö, Sweden

Posted by BlitZ_SWE on Monday, May 18, 2009 7:43 AM

Yes there is a fairly new film about Yamato but sadly its not so good. It is more a drama of the fighting men on the yamto and not like the other war movies as the longest day or saving private ryan (yeah i know they are army movies...). It was not so epic as I imigined would be. I was disappointed that you didn't see much of the actual ship but more close-ups of the single AA stations.

They did build for the movie an impressive scale model in 1/10 of Yamato and like a third of the ship in real scale which is in a naval museum somewhere near Tokyo now.

The movie you are talking about is:

http://www.amazon.com/2007-Japanese-Drama-Movie-Subtitle/dp/B000ZLUWAM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1242650174&sr=8-1

Cheers
Christian

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searat12

Member since
March 2007
From: Portsmouth, RI

Posted by searat12 on Monday, May 18, 2009 9:32 AM

Yup, from all i have heard about the movie, as a movie, it's something of a turkey. THAT said, it DOES have some good special effects, and most of them can be seen on 'Youtube' in a several clips from the movie....

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a6m5zerosen

Member since
August 2004
From: Denver, Colorado

Posted by a6m5zerosen on Thursday, May 21, 2009 8:46 PM

This is a truly bizarre film, with some really bad CGI, and a rather wacky plot that involves, among other things, Japanese sailors repeatedly hitting, punching, & spanking each other. Very strange, not particularly worth watching.

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knabria

Member since
March 2004

Posted by knabria on Friday, May 22, 2009 7:10 PM

Based on your description, I'm not sure what film you watched ... or for how long.

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For anyone really curious about the plot of the movie, you may want to check these links.

http://twitchfilm.net/archives/008023.html

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0451845/

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subfixer

Member since
March 2004
From: Spartanburg, SC

Posted by subfixer on Friday, May 22, 2009 7:54 PM

a6m5zerosen wrote:
This is a truly bizarre film, with some really bad CGI, and a rather wacky plot that involves, among other things, Japanese sailors repeatedly hitting, punching, & spanking each other. Very strange, not particularly worth watching.

Kinda like the The Three Stooges, huh? But they are worth watching!

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Cadet Jack

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January 2008

Posted by Cadet Jack on Saturday, May 23, 2009 8:22 AM

"Otoko Takae No Yamato" (The Last Battle of Yamato) is the latest movie. True, the CGI wasn't the best, but the story was more about three young cadets, rather than the ship. Don't mistake a discipline scene for S&M. You must watch the whole movie to understand what it is about. There are some very good details to be picked up from the full-sized set. The TBFs and SB2s are unrealistically shown doing u-turns that even UFOs can't do.

The story is about survivor's remorse more than about the ship. Although, Yamato does upstage the characters, occasionally.

Please don't mix this semi-historical film with the sci-fi drek of "Space Battleship Yamato" (Starblazers) or any of it's incarnations.

"SILENCE.... OR I KEEL YOU!" Jack "Stuck in the '50s" McKirgan

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Jonathan Mock

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September 2006

Posted by Jonathan Mock on Saturday, May 23, 2009 12:09 PM

rabbiteatsnake wrote:
awhile back a coworker brought in a DVD to watch at work. some 60's nippo sci fi piece of crud w/ monsters that ran around, and people doing things, stuff blowing up,

Sounds great! What film was that?

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rabbiteatsnake

Member since
February 2005
From: California

Posted by rabbiteatsnake on Sunday, June 7, 2009 3:57 AM

Been to youtube looked at a good numer of those clips, none matched the footage I speak of. The clip I saw showed a model about 1/32nd, a hand painted cyclorama, and precisly choreographed "practical effects showing tracers, water plumes and explosions, all done real time, not CGI. The model, the cyc, the tank are all "cost prohibitive" and superfluous exercises for a digital heavy extravaganza. So I have some doubt that the clip is from the same film and judging from the technichians dress I would put it at about circa 1980-85. {Jon Mock} If you're into that sort of video self abbuse I'll try and get you that title, it was a late sixties flick starring Ceaser Romero as well as a few other western actors.

The devil is in the details...and somtimes he's in my sock drawer. On the bench. Airfix 1/24 bf109E scratch conv to 109 G14AS MPC1/24 ju87B conv to 87G Rev 1/48 B17G toF Trump 1/32 f4u-1D and staying a1D Scratch 1/16 TigerII.

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Jonathan Mock

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September 2006

Posted by Jonathan Mock on Tuesday, June 23, 2009 5:27 AM

"Latitude Zero", I know the film well, one of the most bizarre of Toho's output (but not as bad as "Yog: Monster from Space"), filmed in English but handicapped when the US money fail to show and Joseph Cotten was taken ill.

But what's not to like? Flying subs, undersea kingdom, mutant rats, woman's brained transplanted into a lion with wings... Trey Parker and Matt Stone couldn't make this stuff up!

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