Admiral isurucu yamamo came up with an idea to win a war that he doesn't believe is winnable. He's famous for both being a creative military genius and a crazy gambler. Historian described him as, "a gonde like figure who chain smokes and leaves trails of ashes behind him"
Deep themes run through this show, with allegations of Japanese war crimes and atrocities in China at the start leading to eerily familiar, almost modern questions over how the world should respond. And then Dec 7, 1941 arrives...