What the War Meant
- Released on
- Runtime
- 277 mins
The drama stars Beat Takeshi as General Hideki Tojo, who served as Prime Minister of Japan during World War II and was later executed as a war criminal. The story's theme is said to be a look at how the Pacific War began, focusing mostly on the three month period between the Imperial Conference (Gozen Kaigi) on September 6, 1941, and the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
The drama stars Beat Takeshi as General Hideki Tojo, who served as Prime Minister of Japan during World War II and was later executed as a war criminal. The story's theme is said to be a look at how the Pacific War began, focusing mostly on the three month period between the Imperial Conference (Gozen Kaigi) on September 6, 1941, and the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Cast
- Katsunori Takahashi
- Takeshi Kitano
- Yuichiro Yamaguchi
- Masatô Ibu
- Tadahiko Hirano
- Ren Osugi
- Kazunori Mimura
- Hiroshi Abe
- Isao Hashizume
- Morio Kazama
- Katsumi Takahashi
- Toru Masuoka
- Sei Hiraizumi
- Yūki Meguro
- Naomasa Musaka
- Toshio Kurosawa
- Yuichi Kimura
- Rei Dan
- Mansai Nomura
- Toshiyuki Nishida
Director
- Shin'ichi Kamoshita
Producers
Screenwriter
- Shunsaku Ikehata
