One film shows the battleship under U.S. attack on April 7, 1945, off Kagoshima Prefecture, according to Toyonokuni Usashijuku, a local group that analyzes and identifies U.S. war archival materials.
The film is about the Yamato's suicide mission to Okinawa in March 1945 to defend the homeland threatened by U.S. bombers. Adapted from Mitsuru Yoshida's 1952 book "Requiem for the Battleship Yamato".