1st class. Decorations 1939 – Order of the Sacred Treasure, 2nd class 1945 – Order of the Golden Kite, 1st class Promotions Midshipman – 17 July 1912 Ensign – 1 December 1913 Sublieutenant – 13 December 1915 Lieutenant – 1 December 1918 Lieutenant Commander – 1 December 1924 Commander – 10 December 1928 Captain – 1 December 1932 Rear Admiral – 15 November 1938 Vice Admiral – 5 June 1942 (Posthumous) In film and fiction In the 1960 film Hawaii Midway Ocean Combat; The Storm in The Pacific (ハワイ・ミッドウェイ大海空戦 太平洋の嵐), Yamaguchi was portrayed by Toshiro Mifune. In the 1970 film Tora! Tora! Tora!, Yamaguchi was portrayed by Susumu Fujita. In the 1976 film Midway, Yamaguchi was portrayed by Hawaiian actor John Fujioka. He appears in the 2009 manga series by Kouta Hirano, Drifters. In the 2016 anime adaptation, he is voiced by Yutaka Nakano. In Toei's 2011 war film Isoroku, Yamaguchi was portrayed by Hiroshi Abe. Yamaguchi (voiced by Yutaka Nakano) is one of the protagonists of the Drifters manga and anime. In the 2019 film Midway, Yamaguchi is portrayed by Tadanobu Asano. References Fuchida, Mitsuo (with C.H. Kawakami and Roger Pineau), Midway - The Battle that Doomed Japan: The Japanese Navy's Story, Annapolis, 1955. Peattie, Mark R., Sunburst: The Rise of Japanese Naval Air Power 1909-1941, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 2001, External links Kita Renzo's famous painting of Yamaguchi's Last Moments Footnotes 1892 births 1942 deaths Captains who went down with the ship People from Tokyo Battle of Midway Imperial Japanese Navy admirals Japanese admirals of World War II Japanese military personnel killed in World War II Japanese military attachés Princeton University alumni Recipients of the Order of the Sacred Treasure, 2nd class Recipients of the Order of the Golden Kite, 1st class Recipients of the Order of the Rising Sun