男人们的大和

故事背景设定在太平洋战争中后期，日本海军在中途岛海战中被美海军大败；第一机动舰队4艘航母被击沉；联合舰队司令长官山本五十六大将战死，太平洋上各岛屿的日军守备部队先后覆没，日海军处于严重不利的形势。 　　昭和19年（公元1944年）的春天，特别少年兵部队的神尾怀着对大和号的憧憬，登上了超弩级战列舰“大和”号的甲板，当时的大和号是日本国民和军人的希望与象征。神尾忍受了舰上严酷的训练，然后迎来了他的第一次实战——莱特湾大海战。 　　在这次海战中，联合舰队事实上已经土崩瓦解。当残酷的战局放在面前，大和号和它的船员们怀着守护国土的决心，起锚迎来它的最后一次悲壮决战。所有的人都很清楚：迎接他们的将是杀气腾腾的美军大批舰载机群.............On April, 6th 2005, in Makurazi, Kagoshima, Makiko Uchida seeks a boat in the local fishing cooperative to take her to the latitude N30, longitude L128, where the largest, heaviest and most powerfully armed battleships ever constructed Yamato was sunk on April, 7th 1945; however, her request is denied. She meets by chance the captain Katsumi Kamio of the fishing vessel Asukamaru and discloses that she is the stepdaughter of Officer Nagoya Uchida and Kamio immediately accepts to take her in the risky journey. While traveling with Makiko and the fifteen year-old Atsuchi, Kamio recalls and discloses the story of Yamato and his close friends that served on board of the battleship until the final suicidal mission in Okinawa. When they reach the spot where Yamato was sunk, he considers that he finally reached the end of the Showa era.