Type in the search box "Yamamoto" here at imdb and see if this movie come up at all. It doesn't! I got to watch this movie in a flight and I find it interesting. It portrays Yamamoto as a good guy and perhaps that is why this movie is virtually unknown here.
shareFunny, I just saw this movie and typed in "Yamamoto" but got nothing as well. However, I don't think it's a conspiracy. I think that the actual title is so long that the search tool fails to home in on a single word within it. If I repeat the search with "Isoruku Yamamoto" it comes right up.
shareI actually found this by entering ADMIRAL YAMAMOTO - the Canadian release title.
shareYou are right. Apparently the search has been fixed.
sharei just came to IMDb to look for the page on the movie and searched "The Admiral" which is what i thought the name of the movie was... it was only after searching Wikipedia and finding its complete Japanese title that i found the actual IMDb page... but that's the trouble with movies made in a different language than you speak.. they all have different titles in different countries...
shareIt portrays Yamamoto as a good guy and perhaps that is why this movie is virtually unknown here.
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This may be just a misunderstanding.
Admiral Yamamotos' first name is Isoroku. His surname, naturally, is Yamamoto. In Japan, often the surname comes first, and the first name last.
If you want to go to the official website, it is actually "www.isoroku.jp".
So looking under 'Yamamoto' and not finding this movie is not a plot or a slight agains this historical figure or the Japanese. In Japan, the name of the movie is "Isoroku". Here in the States or in Canada, they named the movie "Admiral Yamamoto" so that westerners would get it.
As far a Admiral Yamamoto being a 'bad guy' he was hardly that, even by Western standards, given that he was the 'Enemy'.
Having studied at Harvard University, he was reluctant to enter into war with the United States. He was aware of their overwhelming industrial capacity compared to that of Japan, and felt that only a knockout blow would remove the US threat to Japan. He also did not trust Nazi Germany and was against the tripartite pact with Germany and Italy. He also opposed the invasion of Manchuria, and for this reason received death threats from the Japanese Army commanders.
He correctly anticipated that the aircraft carrier would play a role in any decisive battle with the United States. Furthermore, he supported increasing the striking power of the air fleets by combining all six of Japan's large aircraft carriers into one carrier battle group.
The decision to kill him ws motivated by a number of factors. The bushwack of his aircraft was facilitated by US code breakers when they learned of his intention to go on an inspection tour. The assets were in place to stage a long-range hit, since the introduction of the long legged P-38 Lightning fighter. The idea of killing him in an ambush held no moral ambiguity since he was the architect of the 'sneak' attack at Pearl Harbor. And the decision to kill him was actually made by Secretary of War Frank Knox (a former Newspaper man) and had tacit support by the US Navy heierarchy, with the acknowledgment that Yamamoto was 'probably the best Admiral the Japanese had' and so taking him out of action was considered a militarily sound idea.