The Great War of Archimedes

The Great War of Archimedes
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Original title	アルキメデスの大戦
Directed by	Takashi Yamazaki
Written by	Takashi Yamazaki
Produced by	Shūji Abe
Starring	Masaki Suda Tasuku Emoto Minami Hamabe Shōfukutei Tsurube II Jun Kunimura Isao Hashizume Min Tanaka Hiroshi Tachi
Narrated by	Hitoshi Kubota
Cinematography	Kōzō Shibasaki
Edited by	Ryûji Miyajima
Music by	Naoki Satō
Distributed by	Toho
Release date	26 July 2019 (2019-07-26)
Running time	130 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
Box office	¥1.93 billion ($17.7 million)[1]

The Great War of Archimedes (アルキメデスの大戦, Arukimedesu no taisen) is a 2019 Japanese historical film directed and written by Takashi Yamazaki. Concerning the building of the battleship Yamato, the film is based on a manga by Norifusa Mita. It is a fictionalized telling of the political maneuvers, specifically pertaining to budget and cost issues, that led to the decision to build the Yamato. The film was dubbed into various languages and distributed worldwide.