1939年，国际局势动荡不安。由于在中国战场上受到由美国支持的国军的牵制，日本国内上下掀起阵阵反美热潮，自陆军到普通民众，无不呼吁本国与德、意缔结三国同盟，向美利坚开展。而在这股近乎癫狂的呼声背后，只有少数人能冷静认清国际局势，这其中便包括海军大臣米内光政（柄本明 饰）、海军次官山本五十六（役所広司 饰）等人。可是他们的声音被有意无意忽视，高层最终决定对美开展，而在此命运关隘，山本五十六则被任命为联合舰队司令长官。明知不可为而为之，山本策划了震惊世界并永载战争史册的珍珠港事件。一旦投入战争，抽身而退便已不是一件容易的事情。
山本五十六在人生的最后时光里，见证着祖国最为惨痛的历史……

Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in 1941 and is welcomed with pride in his hometown on his return. As Japan racks up victory after victory in the Pacific War, Kitami is caught up in the emotion of the time and fights courageously for the standard of Japanese honor. But his assuredness of his government's righteousness is shaken after the Japanese navy is defeated in the debacle of Midway.

1970 American-Japanese war film

A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship during the Second World War.

2006 film directed by Clint Eastwood

The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.