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Japan's Longest Day (1967)

Directed by Kihachi Okamoto

History | War | Drama

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Overview

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.

Length 157 minutes

Actors

Seiji Miyaguchi | Rokkô Toura | Chishū Ryū | Sô Yamamura | Toshirō Mifune | Yoshio Kosugi | Takashi Shimura | Etsushi Takahashi | Takao Inoue | Tadao Nakamaru | Toshio Kurosawa | Akira Kitchôji | Haruo Yamada | Ryôsuke Kagawa | Ushio Akashi | Isao Tamagawa | Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi | Tôru Takeuchi | Takeshi Katô | Kyuzo Kawabe | Tatsuyoshi Ehara | Kazuko Iida | Shiro Kida | Shiyuki Tanaka | Keisuke Yamada | Kôji Mitsui | Yoshio Tsuchiya | Shôgo Shimada | Goro Morino | Yasuhisa Tsutsumi | Minoru Takada | Daisuke Katô | Shigeki Ishida | Jun Tazaki | Akihiko Hirata | Sachio Sakai | Nobuo Nakamura | Shin Tatsuoka | Ryuji Kita | Akiji Nomura | Yû Fujiki | Kazuo Kitamura | Fuyuki Murakami | Hyo Kitazawa | Masao Imafuku | Hideyo Amamoto | Shigeru Kôyama | Jun Hamamura | Kaku Oze | Makoto Satō | Akira Kubo | Naoya Kusakawa | Masao Akitsuki | Seiichirô Nomura | Hiroo Kirino | Yasuo Araki | Kenjiro Ishiyama | Keikichi Taki | Susumu Fujita | Hiroshi Tanaka | Yutaka Sada | Tadayoshi Ueda | Nobuyuki Katsube | Yūnosuke Itō | Hiroshi Hasegawa | Hirayoshi Aono | Kiyoshi Kodama | Torahiko Hamada | Tadashi Fukuro | Keiju Kobayashi | Ichirô Nakatani | Tadasaburo Wakayama | Ren Yamamoto | Yutaka Nakayama | Kanta Mori | Tôru Ibuki | Seishirô Kuno | Yasuzô Ogawa | Yoshifumi Tajima | Yûzô Kayama | Michiyo Aratama | Akio Miyabe | Ginzô Sekiguchi | Yû Sekita | Hisashi Igawa | Hiroshi Koizumi | Hakuô Matsumoto | Tatsuya Nakadai

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Viewing Notes

This is a 2.5 hour who’s who of the Toho studio system. Veterans of Honda’s kaiju flicks and Kurosawa’s period pieces alike.

Pretty intense docu-drama about what went down when Japan agreed to surrender and end the war. Much of this I did not know so this is very much a history lesson. Rather bloody too. Definitely has me wanting to read up on events as they really happened. Kinda nuts that it almost didn’t happen (the surrender).

Again, this cast is insane. And all men (only one female actor in a very small role in a short scene).

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