Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified positions in the world, during the Russo-Japanese War of (1904 - 1905). In the story dominated the character Lt Takeshi Kogyo (Teruhiko Aoi), teachers, and a reserve officer who became commander of the platoon and later company. At the same time monitors the conduct of the army commander general Nogi (Tatsuya Nakadai), which was commissioned of the emperor Matsuhito (Toshirô Mifune) to the conquest of the fort.
Length 185 minutes
Tatsuya Nakadai | Teruhiko Aoi | Kenji Niinuma | Masayuki Yuhara | Makoto Satō | Toshiyuki Nagashima | Akio Hasegawa | Yoshio Inaba | Katsutoshi Atarashi | Jirô Chiba | Jun Funato | Torahiko Hamada | Hiroshi Kondô | Ichirô Izawa | Isao Tamagawa | Hiroshi Nawa | Hisashi Yokomori | Akio Muto | Akira Hamada | Michirô Minami | Koichi Kitamura | Shirô Kimura | Hirohisa Nakata | Hiroshi Minami | Jiro Kawarazaki | Yoshiro Ichikawa | Kôichi Yamada | Kenji Isomura | Gôzô Sôma | Chû Takatsuki | Tatsuya Kameyama | Teruo Shimizu | Shinsuke Kirihara | Junichi Tatsu | Kunji Harada | Shintarô Mishima | Riki Harada | Akira Kuji | Kôji Sawada | Kenyu Shimizu | Tappei Murayama | Sakae Yamaura | Jôji Sawada | Yasuhiko Uchida | Chikara Gonoue | Yasuo Matsumoto | Satoshi Soeda | Mitsunori Katsu | Hiroki Oshima | Toyonori Murazoe | Kodai Takano | Yuji Sasamori | Shigeru Aoki | Koji Kojima | Akira Usui | Takao Nakamura | Tatsuro Sato | Toshi Akiyama | Yoshinobu Kaneko | Hisaya Morishige | Shigeru Amachi | Motoo Noguchi | Nobuo Kawai | Toshizô Kudô | Ken Sudo | Masahiro Yoshiwara | Genki Koyama | Saburo Hiromatsu | Takashi Takano | Shigeru Kôyama | Akihiko Hirata | Go Wakabayashi | Masahiko Arima | Toshiyuki Tsuchiyama | Shigeo Saigoku | Kin'ya Aikawa | Masako Natsume | Yoko Nogiwa | Masakazu Kuwayama | Harue Akagi | Kiyoto Harada | Sanae Kitabayashi | Hiroshi Hijikata | Kinuko Obata | Genji Kawai | Noriko Masuda | Toshiaki Oba | Mizuho Wada | Ryô Suga | Kazuko Tamagawa | Eiji Sachi | Mieko Muramatsu | Haruki Jo | Junko Yoshikawa | Osamu Kimura | Yoko Ishikawa | Yoshitaka Kase | Kumiko Nishimura | Tokio Shoji | Toshie Fukushima | Nobuyuki Funakubo | Keiko Itô | Kenji Tamari | Hiroko Shima | Koichi Shibata | Yuko Koyama | Masayuki Koyama | Yoshiko Sakakibara | Midori Yamamoto | Shigeko Mori | Yukiko Watanabe | Mayumi Katayama | Osman Yusuf | Ulf Otsuki | Peter Williams | Tetsurō Tamba | Masashi Ishibashi | Kunio Murai | Junichi Hayakawa | Tatsuya Nanjo | Rikiya Iwaki | Jiro Katagiri | Kimitaka Ôizumi | Masaru Yoshizawa | Hiroshi Kamiyama | Shinnosuke Ogata | Yoshirô Aoki | Toshirō Mifune | Kayo Matsuo | Taketoshi Naitô