The Dream of Russia

The Dream of Russia (1992)

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Sumptuous filming of the journey of a shipwrecked Japanese expedition from the Pacific Ocean across Siberia to the court of Catherine the Great of Russia. A Russo-Japanese co-production of a unique event in history which was the hit of Cannes and other film festivals but did not receive wide distribution despite its huge scope, high production values, and very human story of culture clash.

Director: Junya Satō
Writers: Fumio Kōnami, Junya Satō, Tatsuo Nogami.

Casts

	Ken Ogata as Koudayu Daikokuya - captain
	Toshiyuki Nishida as Atsuzou - navigator
	Takuzō Kawatani as Koichi
	Noboru Mitani as Kudzaemon
	Hiroyuki Okita as Shinzou
	Nozomibun Yoneyama as Isokichi
	Tohru Emori as Sadanobu Matsudaira
	Marina Vlady as Yekaterina II - empress
	Oleg Yankovskiy as Kirill Gustavovich Laksman - academician
	Evgeniy Evstigneev as Bush - gardener
	Elena Arzhanik as Sofya Ivanovna Bush
	Yuriy Solomin as Bezborodko - count
	Vitali Solomin as Shelekhov - Irkutsk nobleman
	Viktor Stepanov as Yakov Nevidimov
	Anastasiya Nemolyaeva as Tatyana
	Tatyana Bedova as
	Anatoliy Skoryakin as
	Vladimir Eryomin as Vorontsov - count
	Sergei Stepanchenko as Boris - Nevidimov's servant
	Viktor Smirnov as Iosif
	Aleksandr Blok as
	Sergei Parshin as Russian naval officer
	Boris Klyuev as Russian naval officer
	Yuji Ueda as
	Mikhail Godin as city dweller
	Pavel Kornakov as
	Leonard Varfolomeev as
	Tatyana Mikhalevkina as
	Aleksey Serebryakov as seafarer
	Elena Borzunova as reads voiceover (voice)
	Igor Taradaikin as reads voiceover (voice)

Crew