The Great War of Archimedes
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2hrs
10mins
Directed by
Takashi Yamazaki,
Starring
Masaki Suda,
Tasuku Emoto,
Minami Hamabe,
Tsurube Shofukutei
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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.