[poconopundit]

A film I highly recommend...

[The Louiswu]

Thanks. I’ll be sure to watch this one.

[Huskrrrr]

The world’s greatest battleship, just in time to see carrier warfare take center stage.

[texanyankee]

thanks for the head’s up!

[chajin]

It can also be rented for $4.99 here

[virgil]

I’ve seen this one. I was curious, so I rented it. It wasn’t bad. I’m guessing that some of Archimedes’s principles were used to determine how much the ship would cost to build based on the weight (or displacement?)of the materials in the short period of time he (the boy genius) had to figure it out.

[workerbee]

Thanks for the info, I’ll tell my husband. He’s been into foreign (esp. Asian-produced) movies lately.

[BlueLancer]

Looks like a movie worth seeing ...

[glorgau]

Hmm, I have a book on the building of the sister ship Musashi. The most amazing thing to me was the amount of trouble they had to go through to drill the wooden pads on which the hull sat in the dry dock.

[sphinx]

Looping in the movie ping list.

I had not heard of this film, but it sounds like it’s right in the zone for a lot of us. Adding it to my watchlist.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Two reasons why we didn’t build huge battleships like our enemies did. An American built ship had to be low enough to clear the Brooklyn Bridge and thin enough to fit through the Panama Canal.

[The MAGA-Deplorian]

Any giant lizards crushing cities or puking up fire?

[griffin]

Thanks! Sounds great.

[Fiji Hill]

I get a kick out of the Japanese naming conventions for their ships. They had a destroyer named the Floral Fragrance and one of their aircraft carriers that fought at Midway was named the Increased Joy. The other Japanese carriers at Midway were the Flying Dragon, Green Dragon and Red Castle.

Incidentally, Yamato was named for a Japanese province.

[OKSooner]

Thanks, we might watch it... soon. American (Hollywood) movies suck, for the most part.

[RandallFlagg]

Just finished watching this. Excellent recommendation. Thank you.

[higgmeister]

Toshiro Mifune's portrayal of Admiral Yamamoto would have been the best ever if his voice had not been dubbed by Paul Frees of "The Time Machine" talking rings fame.   Oh yeah, and the voice of the alien in "Earth vs. the Flying Saucers."