Great War of Archimedes, The

[Available June 15 on Blue-ray and DVD.] When the Japanese Rear Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (Hiroshi Tachi) suspects that a Naval architect (Min Tanaka) is involved in a conspiracy to low-ball the cost of building a super battleship in 1933 in Takashi Yamazaki's multilayered, complex, intriguing, well-acted, humor-dotted, 130-minute film based on the acclaimed 2015 manga series Archimedes no Taisen, he promotes a young math genius (Masaki Suda), who is in love with the supportive daughter (Minami Hamabe) of a military bigwig, to lieutenant commander to perform the Herculean task of estimating the true cost of building the super warship Yamato.
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