Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the Army Anami leads the military officers who propose to fight on, even to the death of every Japanese citizen. Emperor Hirohito, however, joins with his ministers in asking the unthinkable, the peaceful surrender of Japan. When the military plots a coup to overthrow the Emperor's civilian government, Anami must face the choice between his desires and loyalty to his Emperor.
Genre : DramaHistoryWar
Runtime : 157 mins
Release Date : 1967-08-03






(Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo)

(Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Shunichi Matsumato)

(Prime Minister Baron Kantaro Suzuki)

(Navy Minister Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai)

(War Minister General Korechika Anami)

(Minister of Public Welfare Keisuke Okade)

(Information Bureau Director Hiroshi Shimomura)

(Lt. Colonel Masutaka Ida)
(Lt. Colonel Masahiko Takeshita)

(Lt. Colonel Jiro Shiizaki)

(Major Kenji Hatanaka - Military Affairs Section)
(General Yoshijiro Umezu - Chief of the Army General Staff)
(Admiral Soemu Toyoda - Chief of the Navy General Staff)

(Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Tadaatsu Ishiguro)

(President of the Privy Council Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma)

(Colonel Okitsugu Arao - Chief of Military Affairs Section)

(Admiral Takijiro Onishi - Vice-Chief of the Naval General Staff)
(Naval Surgeon Kobayashi)

(Cabinet Chief Secretary Hisatsune Sakomizu)

(Michio Kihara - Assistant to Sakomizu)

(Nobumasa Kawamoto - Private Secretary to Shimomura)
(General)
(General)
(General)
(Journalist)

(Old Journalist)

(Lt. Colonel Hiroshi Fuha - Eastern District Army Staff Officer)

(Lt. General Takeshi Mori - CO 1st Imperial Guards Division)
(Hachiro Ohashi - NHK Chairman)

(Insurgent Commander)

(Vice Admiral Zenshiro Hoshina - Dir. of the Naval Affairs Bureau)

(Kenjiro Yabe - NHK Domestic Bureau Director)
(Daitaro Arakawa - NHK Technical Bureau Director)

(Captain Yasuna Kozono - CO 302nd Air Group)

(Commander Sugahara - 302nd Air Group)

(Atsugi Air Base Crew Chief)

(Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal Marquis Koichi Kido)
(Imperial Household Minister Sotaro Ishiwata (as Susumu Tatsuoka))

(General Shigeru Hasunuma - Chief Military Aide to the Emperor)
(Major Nakamura)

(Colonel Seike - Military Aide to the Emperor)

(Tomoo Sato - Cabinet General Affairs Section Chief)

(Minister of Justice Hiromasa Matsuzaka)

(Minister of Finance Hosaku Hirose)

(Marshal Shunroku Hata)

(Captain Takeo Sasaki)

(Susumu Kato - Imperial Household General Affairs Section)

(Motohike Kakei - Imperial Household General Affairs Chief)
(Lt. General Tadakazu Wakamatsu - Vice-Minister for War)

(Major Hidemasa Koga - 1st Imperial Guards Division)

(Major Sadakichi Ishihara - 1st Imperial Guards Division)

(Shunichi Nagatomo - NHK Engineer)
(Kamikaze)
(Kamikaze)
(Kamikaze)
(Decapitated Man)

(General Shizuichi Tanaka - C-in-C Eastern District Army)
(Colonel Tsukamoto - Tanaka's Adjutant)

(Colonel Toyojiro Haga - CO Imperial Guards 2nd Infantry Regiment)

(Major Kobayashi)

(Keisaku Sano)
(Komonta Sano)

(Lt. Colonel Michinori Shiraishi - General Mori's Brother-in-Law)

(Major General Toshio Nonaka - CO 27th Air Brigade)
(Guard Supporting the Insurgency)

(Grand Chamberlain Hisanori Fujita)

(Chamberlain Yasuhide Toda)

(Chamberlain Yasuya Mitsui)
(Chamberlain Sukemasa Irie)

(Chamberlain Yoshihiro Tokugawa)

(First Lieutnenant Kuroda)
(Colonel Kazuo Mizutani - Chief of Staff to General Mori)

(Corporal)

(Corporal)
(Maj. General Tatsuhiko Takashima - Chief of Staff E. Dist. Army)

(Lt. Colonel Toru Itagaki - Eastern District Army Staff Officer)
(Battalion Commander)
(Policeman)

(Colonel Watanabe - CO Imperial Guards 1st Infantry Regiment)

(Morio Tateno - NHK Broadcaster)

(Yuriko Hara)
(Colonel Katsuhiko Inadome - Eastern District Army Staff Officer)
(Chamberlain Okabe)
(Staff Kamino)

(Kempeitai Lieutenant)

(Nobukata Wada - NHK Broadcaster)

(Emperor Hirohito)

(Narrator (voice))
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