Japan's Longest Day
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- Runtime
- 157 mins
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.
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.
Cast
- Seiji Miyaguchi
- Rokkō Toura
- Chishū Ryū
- Sō Yamamura
- Toshirō Mifune
- Yoshio Kosugi
- Takashi Shimura
- Etsushi Takahashi
- Takao Inoue
- Tadao Nakamaru
- Toshio Kurosawa
- Akira Kitchôji
- Haruo Yamada
- Ryōsuke Kagawa
- Ushio Akashi
- Isao Tamagawa
- Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi
- Tōru Takeuchi
- Takeshi Katō
- Kyuzo Kawabe
- Tatsuyoshi Ehara
- Kazuko Iida
- Shiro Kida
- Shiyuki Tanaka
- Keisuke Yamada
- Kōji Mitsui
- Yoshio Tsuchiya
- Shōgo Shimada
- Goro Morino
- Yasuhisa Tsutsumi
- Minoru Takada
- Daisuke Katō
- Shigeki Ishida
- Jun Tazaki
- Akihiko Hirata
- Sachio Sakai
- Nobuo Nakamura
- Shin Tatsuoka
- Ryuji Kita
- Akiji Nomura
- Yū Fujiki
- Kazuo Kitamura
- Fuyuki Murakami
- Hyo Kitazawa
- Masao Imafuku
- Hideyo Amamoto
- Shigeru Kōyama
- Jun Hamamura
- Kaku Oze
- Makoto Satō
- Akira Kubo
- Naoya Kusakawa
- Masao Akitsuki
- Seiichirō Nomura
- Hiroo Kirino
- Yasuo Araki
- Kenjirō 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
- Ichirō Nakatani
- Tadasaburo Wakayama
- Ren Yamamoto
- Yutaka Nakayama
- Kanta Mori
- Tôru Ibuki
- Seishirō Kuno
- Yasuzō Ogawa
- Yoshifumi Tajima
- Yūzō Kayama
- Michiyo Aratama
- Akio Miyabe
- Ginzô Sekiguchi
- Yû Sekita
- Hisashi Igawa
- Hiroshi Koizumi
- Matsumoto Hakuō I
- Tatsuya Nakadai
Director
- Kihachi Okamoto
Producers
- Sanezumi Fujimoto
- Tomoyuki Tanaka
Screenwriter
- Shinobu Hashimoto
