Just got the Japanese "The Yamato" in the mail and spent last night watching it, "yes I lost an evening of playing AH".
It sure looked awfully Historically accurate to me. Mind you I haven't read up on Yamato in years. There are two main battle scenes in the movie. The first one, which shows Yamato at the Philippine Sea battles, is short but bloody. And the second one, at the end, has all the impact and emotion of Private Ryan when the landing ships come in off of Normandy. Yamato had a huge AA component and there was a big battle between the USN Jabos strafing her and the many AA guns shooting back. The Producers went out of their way to make it look real, the scenes of IJN sailors getting raked by the 0.50 cal MGs of the USN. It is pretty brutal on a large HD home TV.
But the movie is more a story about a group of friends who were drafted into the IJN at 15yo and assigned to the Yamato. This is a great movie, a great flight movie. I thought the efx of the USN Jabos was well done, tho a few cuts were used again to often. Lots of TBMs and Hellcats and they looked pretty good. You can only find the movie with English subtitles but I'm 1/2deaf and am used to reading subtitles.
"Yamato" is going to be a treasured member of my war collection. Thats for sure. I give it 3 & 1/2 stars.