Editing Isoroku Yamamoto (section)

==In film and fiction==
Yamamoto was portrayed by [[Denjirō Ōkōchi]] in [[Toho]]'s 1953 film ''[[Eagle of the Pacific]]''.

The 1960 film ''[[The Gallant Hours]]'' depicts the battle of wits between Vice-Admiral [[William Halsey, Jr.]] and Yamamoto from the start of the [[Guadalcanal Campaign]] in August 1942 to [[Operation Vengeance|Yamamoto's death]] in April 1943. The film, however, portrays Yamamoto's death as occurring in November 1942, the day after the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, and the P-38 aircraft that killed him as coming from Guadalcanal.

In 1960's ''[[Storm Over the Pacific]]'' from [[Toho Studios]], Yamamoto is portrayed by [[Susumu Fujita]]. 

In [[Daiei Studios]]'s 1969 film ''Aa, kaigun'' (later released in the United States as ''Gateway to Glory''), Yamamoto was portrayed by [[Shōgo Shimada (actor)|Shōgo Shimada]].<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0202777/ Aa, kaigun (1970)]. IMDB.com.</ref><ref>[https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/563206/gateway-to-glory Gateway to Glory (1970)]. Turner Classic Movies.</ref>

Yamamoto is portrayed by Japanese actor [[So Yamamura|Sō Yamamura]] in the 1970 movie ''[[Tora! Tora! Tora!]]''; he states after the attack on Pearl Harbor:
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|text=I fear that all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.
|sign=[[Isoroku Yamamoto's sleeping giant quote|attributed to Yamamoto]] in ''Tora! Tora! Tora!'' (1970), in reference to the attack on Pearl Harbor. There is no evidence that Yamamoto said this in reality.}}

Professional wrestler Harold Watanabe adopted the [[Heel (professional wrestling)|villainous]] Japanese gimmick of [[Tojo Yamamoto]] in reference to both Yamamoto and [[Hideki Tojo]].

Award-winning Japanese actor [[Toshiro Mifune]] (star of ''[[The Seven Samurai]]'') portrayed Yamamoto in three films:
* ''[[Admiral Yamamoto (film)|Admiral Yamamoto]]'' (1968),<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063822/ Admiral Yamamoto (1968, original title: ''Rengō Kantai Shirei Chōkan: Yamamoto Isoroku'')], imdb.com</ref>
* ''Gekido no showashi 'Gunbatsu' '' (1970, lit. "Turning Point of Showa History: The Militarists"),<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065767/ Gekido no showashi 'Gunbatsu' (1970)]. IMDB.com</ref> and
* ''[[Midway (1976 film)|Midway]]'' (1976, where all of the Japanese scenes had English dialogue).

A fictionalized version of Yamamoto's death was portrayed in the ''[[Baa Baa Black Sheep (TV series)|Baa Baa Black Sheep]]'' episode "The Hawk Flies on Sunday", though only photos of Yamamoto were shown. In this episode, set much later in the war than in real life, the Black Sheep, a Marine Corsair squadron, joins an army squadron of P-51 Mustangs. The Marines intercepted fighter cover while the army shot down Yamamoto.

In [[Shūe Matsubayashi]]'s 1981 film ''[[:jp:連合艦隊 (映画)|Rengō kantai]]'' (lit. "Combined Fleet", later released in the United States as ''[[The Imperial Navy]]''), Yamamoto was portrayed by [[Keiju Kobayashi]].<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085620/ ''Rengō Kantai'' (1981)]. IMDB.com</ref>

In the 1993 [[OVA]] series ''[[Konpeki no Kantai]]'' (lit. ''Deep Blue Fleet''), right after his plane is shot down, Yamamoto suddenly wakes up as his younger self, Isoroku Takano, after the [[Battle of Tsushima]] in 1905. His memory from the original timeline intact, Yamamoto uses his knowledge of the future to help Japan become a stronger military power, eventually launching a ''coup d'état'' against [[Hideki Tōjō]]'s government. In the subsequent [[Pacific War]], Japan's technologically advanced navy decisively defeats the United States, and grants all of the former European and American colonies in Asia full independence. Yamamoto convinces Japan to join forces with the United States and Britain to defeat Nazi Germany. The series was criticized outside Japan as a whitewash of Imperial Japan's intentions towards its neighbors, and distancing itself from the wartime alliance with Nazi Germany.

In [[Neal Stephenson]]'s 1999 book ''[[Cryptonomicon]]'', Yamamoto's final moments are depicted, with him realizing that [[Japanese naval codes|Japan's naval codes]] have been broken and that he must inform headquarters.<!--anybody who cares how it ends can read it-->

In the 2001 film ''[[Pearl Harbor (film)|Pearl Harbor]]'', Yamamoto was portrayed by Japanese-born American actor [[Mako Iwamatsu]]. Like ''Tora! Tora! Tora!'', Yamamoto also says [[Isoroku Yamamoto's sleeping giant quote|the sleeping giant quote]].

In the 2004 [[anime]] series ''[[Zipang (anime)|Zipang]]'', Yamamoto, voiced by [[:jp:外波山文明|Bunmei Tobayama]], works to develop the uneasy partnership with the crew of the [[DDG-182 Mirai|JMSDF ''Mirai'']], which has been transported back through time to 1942.

In the [[Axis of Time]] trilogy by author [[John Birmingham]], after a naval task force from the year 2021 is accidentally transported back through time to 1942, Yamamoto assumes a leadership role in the dramatic alteration of Japan's war strategy.

In ''[[The West Wing]]'' episode "[[We Killed Yamamoto]]", the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff uses the killing of Yamamoto to advocate for an assassination.

In [[Douglas Niles]]' 2007 book ''MacArthur's War: A Novel of the Invasion of Japan'' (written with [[Michael Dobson (author)|Michael Dobson]]), which focuses on General [[Douglas MacArthur]] and an alternate history of the [[Pacific War]] (following a considerably different outcome of the [[Battle of Midway]]), Yamamoto is portrayed sympathetically, with much of the action in the Japanese government seen through his eyes, though he could not change the major decisions of Japan in World War II.

In [[Toei Company|Toei]]'s 2011 war film ''[[Rengō Kantai Shirei Chōkan: Yamamoto Isoroku (2011 film)|Rengō Kantai Shirei Chōkan: Yamamoto Isoroku]]'' (Blu-Ray titles:- English "The Admiral"; German "Der Admiral"), Yamamoto was portrayed by [[Kōji Yakusho]]. The film portrays his career from Pearl Harbor to his death in Operation Vengeance.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1932695/ Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet (2011)]. IMDB.com</ref>

In [[Robert Conroy]]'s 2011 book ''Rising Sun'', Yamamoto directs the IJN to launch a series of attacks on the [[American West Coast]], in the hope the United States can be convinced to sue for peace and securing Japan's place as a world power; but cannot escape his lingering fear the war will ultimately doom Japan.

In the 2019 motion picture ''[[Midway (2019 film)|Midway]]'', Yamamoto is portrayed by [[Etsushi Toyokawa]]. As with ''Tora! Tora! Tora!'' and ''Pearl Harbor'', the [[Isoroku Yamamoto's sleeping giant quote|sleeping giant quote]] is included once again.