Imperial Navy (連合艦隊, Rengo kantai) is a 1981 Japanese war film[2] directed by Shue Matsubayashi.
[1][3][4] In 1940, despite the opposition of the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (Keiju Kobayashi) and other officers, Japan signs the Tripartite Pact with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy as it prepares for expansion in Southeast Asia.
During the attack on Pearl Harbor, Eiichi is in the raid as part of a Val dive bomber crew from the aircraft carrier Zuikaku.
Off Cape Engaño, the Zuikaku is sunk, and Eiichi is among the casualties as he had given his life jacket to Shinji, Masato's younger brother, who was assigned to the ship as a navigator.
As the Yamato and her accompanying fleet sails down to Okinawa, it is intercepted by American planes and sunk with heavy loss of life.