Admiral [Blu-ray]

A hagiography of Yamamoto, painted in pink, sugarcoated and passing under silence all embarassing elements...
This is a very disappointing film about a great and eminent man and leader of men. Life and achievements of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet of Japanese Imperial Navy from August 1939 to April 1943, deserved a much better film than this sugarcoated propaganda.

The film is not entirely without merits. In its first half it shows very accurately Yamamoto as a very lucid adversary of Japanese imperial expansion, as the Deputy-Minister of Navy and later as Commander-in Chief of Combined Fleet. Yamamoto indeed objected both against the war in China in 1937 and the joining of Tripartite Pact, feeling that those developments would cause an unavoidable conflict with United States - a war which he knew pretty well Japan had only limited chances to win. In taking very openly this stance he put his life at great risk, but never changed his mind. His courage and moral integrity were never in doubt and by insisting on this aspect this film does a good...

Japanese view
A view from the Japanese side of the career of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. Gives details on his resistance to Japan joining the Axis and how he was promoted to command the combined fleet to keep him from being assassinated, The film is in Japanese with english subtitles. The transations are much more accurate than the ones for the movie Yamato were. There are war scenes, but this is not what I would call an action movie. If your a true student of WWII who wants to see a good biography on Yamamoto, then buy this. If you want an action war movie, then this is not for you.

GOOD, THOUGHT-PROVOKING VIEW OF A GREAT LEADER!!
A great view, especially if you are at all interested in another view of the great leader .. ..

There are many views of ADMIRAL ISOROKU > He knew war with US was a folly after spending years in the US .. .. The war was dictated by the Army as well as national policy (see Germany in WWII & Iran today) .. ..

And, JAPAN was again embroiled in the last of three attempted coups by the start of WWII, so the attack on Pearl Harbor was actually a welcomed relief, unknowing what was to follow .. ..

When the final Japanese fundamentalist rebels were caught, and tried, in 1952, over 400 years of repeated civil unrest finally came to an end .. ..

I saw this movie on return flight to the States from the UK and enjoyed it so much, that I watched it again before landing .. .. Maybe not a masterpiece, as other reviewers have said, but VERY GOOD and well-worth having a copy .. ..

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