Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War (1957)
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.
Director:
Kunio Watanabe
Writer:
Kunio Watanabe
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Kanjūrō Arashi as Emperor Meiji |
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Kusuo Abe as Hirobumi Itō |
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Minoru Takada as Aritomo Yamagata |
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Shin Takemura as |
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Susumu Fujita as Kaoru Inoue |
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Yōji Misaki as Prime Minister Katsura |
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Ureo Egawa as Navy Minister Yamamoto |
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Tsunemi Hirose as War Minister Terauchi |
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Fumio Hara as Foreign Minister Komura |
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Hiroaki Kurahashi as Finance Minister Sone |
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Jun Mihara as |
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Eiichi Nobuo as Field Marshal Ōyama |
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Arata Shibata as General Kodama |
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Koji Hirose as Major General Nagaoka |
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Akira Nakamura as Admiral Itō |
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Yōichi Numata as Vice-Admiral Ijuin |
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Toshio Hosokawa as |
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Jun Tazaki as Vice-Admiral Tōgō |
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Yōnosuke Toba as Vice-Admiral Kamimura |
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Mikio Namino as Rear Admiral Uryū |
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Eiji Wakasugi as Rear Admiral Katō |
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Hiroshi Ogasawara as |
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Jūzaburō Akechi as Commander Akiyama |
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Saburō Sawai as Fleet staff officer |
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Teruo Wakatsuki as Fleet staff officer |
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Yukio Kohama as Navy Minister's aide |
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Tatsuhiro Oka as Commander Arima |
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Ken Utsui as Lieutenant Commander Hirose |
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Shinji Arima as Private First Class Sugino |
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Akira Kato as Captain Narukawa |
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Satoshi Komori as Captain of the Mikasa |
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Den Kunikata as First Officer of the Mikasa |
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Sōzaburō Kikuchi as Squad Leader on the Mikasa |
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Shin Matsukata as Gunnery Sergeant on the Mikasa |
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Yōzō Takamura as Gunner on the Mikasa |
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Tōru Chiba as Navigator on the Mikasa |
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Fumiya Nakamura as |
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Hiroshi Hayashi as General Nogi |
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Tadao Takashima as Yasusuke Nogi |
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Shoji Nakayama as Major General Ijichi |
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Kyoji Murayama as |
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Shuntarō Emi as Lieutenant Commander Yamaoka |
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Hiroshi Izumida as Lieutenant Commander Yoshioka |
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Yutaka Maki as |
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Tomohiko Ôtani as |
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Tomisaburō Wakayama as Major Tachibana |
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Minoru Asuka as |
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Hiroshi Ayukawa as |
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Yonosuke Akiyama as |
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Kanjiro Nakamura as |
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Akio Shirakawa as |
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Tadashi Ikezuki as |
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Yukio Sayama as |
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Gen Funabashi as |
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Keinosuke Wada as |
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Masaru Kodaka as |
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Asao Matsumoto as |
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Ichirō Ryūzaki as Dr. Tomizu |
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Masao Takamatsu as Dr. Onozuka |
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Unpei Yokoyama as |
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Shūji Kawabe as |
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Kōtarō Sugie as |
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Shinsuke Mikimoto as |
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Shigeru Amachi as |
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Tetsuro Tamba as Rear Admiral Shimamura |
| Directing | Kunio Watanabe | Director |
| Production | Mitsugi Okura | Executive Producer |
| Art | Haruyasu Kurosawa | Art Direction |
| Sound | Seiichi Suzuki | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Kunio Watanabe | Screenplay |
| Camera | Takashi Watanabe | Director of Photography |
| Art | Yuzo Kaji | Art Direction |