Movielogr
Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War (1957)
Directed by Kunio Watanabe
Overview
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.
Length 113 minutes
Actors
Kanjûrô Arashi | Kusuo Abe | Minoru Takada | Shin Takemura | Susumu Fujita | Yôji Misaki | Ureo Egawa | Tsunemi Hirose | Fumio Hara | Hiroaki Kurahashi | Jun Mihara | Eiichi Nobuo | Arata Shibata | Koji Hirose | Akira Nakamura | Yôichi Numata | Toshio Hosokawa | Jun Tazaki | Yônosuke Toba | Mikio Namino | Eiji Wakasugi | Ryuzaburo Ogasawara | Jûzaburô Akechi | Saburô Sawai | Teruo Wakatsuki | Yukio Kohama | Tatsuhiro Oka | Ken Utsui | Shinji Arima | Akira Kato | Satoshi Komori | Den Kunikata | Sôzaburô Kikuchi | Shin Matsukata | Yôzô Takamura | Tôru Chiba | Fumiya Nakamura | Hiroshi Hayashi | Tadao Takashima | Shoji Nakayama | Kyoji Murayama | Shuntarô Emi | Hiroshi Izumida | Yutaka Maki | Tomohiko Ôtani | Tomisaburo Wakayama | Minoru Asuka | Hiroshi Ayukawa | Yonosuke Akiyama | Kanjiro Nakamura | Akio Shirakawa | Tadashi Ikezuki | Yukio Sayama | Gen Funabashi | Keinosuke Wada | Masaru Kodaka | Asao Matsumoto | Ichirô Ryûzaki | Masao Takamatsu | Unpei Yokoyama | Shûji Kawabe | Kôtarô Sugie | Shinsuke Mikimoto | Shigeru Amachi | Tetsurō Tamba