Otoko Tachi no Yamato (literally meaning "The Men's Yamato") is a 2005 Japanese war film that tells the story of the crew of the World War II Japanese battleship called Yamato. It was the lead ship of the Yamato-class of 70,000 ton heavy-battleships designed by the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1937. The class of battleship was designed to be capable of engaging multiple enemy targets, as a method of compensating for Japan's incapability to industrially compete with the Americans. The Yamato was sunk in April 1945. The shooting for Yamato took place from March to June 2005 at a closed-down shipyard in Onomichi City. Approximately JPY 600 million was spent in building a 1:1 scale set of the forward section and the portside anti-aircraft guns. The set was opened to the public on July 17, 2005. Approximately one million people visited the set by the time it closed doors on May 7, 2006.

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