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Film / 1957
Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War
Directed by
Kunio Watanabe
Meiji Tenno portrays the buildup to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political events that led to war, it also shows the era from the story of a farm family in rural Japan that sends their son off to war. As such, it could be considered an anti-war movie, showing how, while war is devised by governments, the people do not really understand what war is, and its combatants often do not know …
The story
Meiji Tenno portrays the buildup to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political events that led to war, it also shows the era from the story of a farm family in rural Japan that sends their son off to war. As such, it could be considered an anti-war movie, showing how, while war is devised by governments, the people do not really understand what war is, and its combatants often do not know what they are fighting for.
In the same saga
Emperor Meiji Collection
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Cast
Kanjūrō ArashiEmperor Meiji
Kusuo AbeHirobumi Itō
Minoru TakadaAritomo Yamagata
Shin Takemura
Susumu FujitaKaoru Inoue
Yōji MisakiPrime Minister Katsura
Ureo EgawaNavy Minister Yamamoto
Tsunemi HiroseWar Minister Terauchi
Fumio HaraForeign Minister Komura
Hiroaki KurahashiFinance Minister Sone
Jun Mihara
Eiichi NobuoField Marshal Ōyama
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Arata ShibataGeneral Kodama
Koji HiroseMajor General Nagaoka
Akira NakamuraAdmiral Itō
Yōichi NumataVice-Admiral Ijuin
Toshio Hosokawa
Jun TazakiVice-Admiral Tōgō
Yōnosuke TobaVice-Admiral Kamimura
Mikio NaminoRear Admiral Uryū
Eiji WakasugiRear Admiral Katō
Hiroshi Ogasawara
Jūzaburō AkechiCommander Akiyama
Saburō SawaiFleet staff officer
Teruo WakatsukiFleet staff officer
Yukio KohamaNavy Minister's aide
Tatsuhiro OkaCommander Arima
Ken UtsuiLieutenant Commander Hirose
Shinji ArimaPrivate First Class Sugino
Akira KatoCaptain Narukawa
Satoshi KomoriCaptain of the Mikasa
Den KunikataFirst Officer of the Mikasa
Sōzaburō KikuchiSquad Leader on the Mikasa
Shin MatsukataGunnery Sergeant on the Mikasa
Yōzō TakamuraGunner on the Mikasa
Tōru ChibaNavigator on the Mikasa
Fumiya Nakamura
Hiroshi HayashiGeneral Nogi
Tadao TakashimaYasusuke Nogi
Shoji NakayamaMajor General Ijichi
Kyoji Murayama
Shuntarō EmiLieutenant Commander Yamaoka
Hiroshi IzumidaLieutenant Commander Yoshioka
Yutaka Maki
Tomohiko Ôtani
Tomisaburō WakayamaMajor Tachibana
Minoru Asuka
Hiroshi Ayukawa
Yonosuke Akiyama
Kanjiro Nakamura
Akio Shirakawa
Tadashi Ikezuki
Yukio Sayama
Gen Funabashi
Keinosuke Wada
Masaru Kodaka
Asao Matsumoto
Ichirō RyūzakiDr. Tomizu
Masao TakamatsuDr. Onozuka
Unpei Yokoyama
Shūji Kawabe
Kōtarō Sugie
Shinsuke Mikimoto
Shigeru Amachi
Tetsuro TambaRear Admiral Shimamura
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