Movielogr
August without Emperor (1978)
Directed by Satsuo Yamamoto
Overview
Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese government on V-J Day. They aim to abolish the post-war constitution, restore the national army and revive the traditional spirit of Japan. As the conspiracy is exposed, the coup squadrons are wiped out one by one. The remaining squadron takes over a night train bound for Tokyo.
Length 140 minutes
Actors
Tsunehiko Watase | Sayuri Yoshinaga | Etsushi Takahashi | Kei Yamamoto | Rentarô Mikuni | Tsutomu Yamazaki | Kensaku Morita | Toshiyuki Nagashima | Morio Kazama | Shinichirô Mikami | Isao Hashimoto | Shigeru Kôyama | Mizuho Suzuki | Eiji Okada | Hideji Ôtaki | Kiyoshi Atsumi | Osamu Takizawa | Shin Saburi | Kiwako Taichi | Tetsurō Tamba | Akira Kume | Taketoshi Naitô | Torahiko Hamada | Kappei Matsumoto | Tomo'o Nagai | Eitarô Ozawa | Kuniyasu Atsumi | Yuriko Kono | Zenpei Saga | Junichi Hayakawa | Jun Hamamura | Ken Hatano | Nobuo Tsukamoto | Dennis Farrell | Takashi Kanda | Kinji Omino | Tatsuo Ito | Kiyoto Harada | Nobuyuki Katsube | Tsutomu Isobe | Yasuo Kanechika | Katsu Itô | Sōnosuke Oda | Noriyuki Watanabe | Ryûsuke Kita | Jun Kashima | Takuya Shiba | Hideaki Komori | Keiji Tsuchida | Taku Kido | Kôei Yamamoto | Akihiko Hanyû | Tadayuki Okamoto | Hidetoshi Hasegawa | Yasuo Shinohara | Shuichi Oki | Nobuo Takagi | Kazuhiro Takasugi | Kayoko Minowa | Matsuko Shiga | Yutaka Nakajima | Jun Izumi | Tamiko Futamura | Mari Okamoto | Yoshiko Okada | Ai Mori | Eriko Kano