Japan's Longest Day (1967)
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.
Director:
Kihachi Okamoto
Writer:
Shinobu Hashimoto
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Seiji Miyaguchi as Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo |
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Rokkō Toura as Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Shunichi Matsumato |
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Chishū Ryū as Prime Minister Baron Kantaro Suzuki |
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So Yamamura as Navy Minister Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai |
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Toshirō Mifune as War Minister General Korechika Anami |
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Yoshio Kosugi as Minister of Public Welfare Keisuke Okade |
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Takashi Shimura as Information Bureau Director Hiroshi Shimomura |
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Etsushi Takahashi as Lt. Colonel Masutaka Ida |
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Takao Inoue as Lt. Colonel Masahiko Takeshita |
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Tadao Nakamaru as Lt. Colonel Jiro Shiizaki |
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Toshio Kurosawa as Major Kenji Hatanaka - Military Affairs Section |
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Akira Kitchôji as General Yoshijiro Umezu - Chief of the Army General Staff |
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Haruo Yamada as Admiral Soemu Toyoda - Chief of the Navy General Staff |
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Ryōsuke Kagawa as Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Tadaatsu Ishiguro |
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Ushio Akashi as President of the Privy Council Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma |
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Isao Tamagawa as Colonel Okitsugu Arao - Chief of Military Affairs Section |
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Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi as Admiral Takijiro Onishi - Vice-Chief of the Naval General Staff |
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Toru Takeuchi as Naval Surgeon Kobayashi |
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Takeshi Katō as Cabinet Chief Secretary Hisatsune Sakomizu |
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Kyuzo Kawabe as Michio Kihara - Assistant to Sakomizu |
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Tatsuyoshi Ehara as Nobumasa Kawamoto - Private Secretary to Shimomura |
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Kazuko Iida as General |
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Shiro Kida as General |
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Shiyuki Tanaka as General |
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Keisuke Yamada as Journalist |
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Kōji Mitsui as Old Journalist |
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Yoshio Tsuchiya as Lt. Colonel Hiroshi Fuha - Eastern District Army Staff Officer |
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Shōgo Shimada as Lt. General Takeshi Mori - CO 1st Imperial Guards Division |
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Goro Morino as Hachiro Ohashi - NHK Chairman |
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Yasuhisa Tsutsumi as Insurgent Commander |
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Minoru Takada as Vice Admiral Zenshiro Hoshina - Dir. of the Naval Affairs Bureau |
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Daisuke Katō as Kenjiro Yabe - NHK Domestic Bureau Director |
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Shigeki Ishida as Daitaro Arakawa - NHK Technical Bureau Director |
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Jun Tazaki as Captain Yasuna Kozono - CO 302nd Air Group |
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Akihiko Hirata as Commander Sugahara - 302nd Air Group |
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Sachio Sakai as Atsugi Air Base Crew Chief |
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Nobuo Nakamura as Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal Marquis Koichi Kido |
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Shin Tatsuoka as Imperial Household Minister Sotaro Ishiwata (as Susumu Tatsuoka) |
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Ryuji Kita as General Shigeru Hasunuma - Chief Military Aide to the Emperor |
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Akiji Nomura as Major Nakamura |
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Yū Fujiki as Colonel Seike - Military Aide to the Emperor |
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Kazuo Kitamura as Tomoo Sato - Cabinet General Affairs Section Chief |
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Fuyuki Murakami as Minister of Justice Hiromasa Matsuzaka |
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Hyo Kitazawa as Minister of Finance Hosaku Hirose |
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Masao Imafuku as Marshal Shunroku Hata |
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Hideyo Amamoto as Captain Takeo Sasaki |
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Shigeru Kōyama as Susumu Kato - Imperial Household General Affairs Section |
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Jun Hamamura as Motohike Kakei - Imperial Household General Affairs Chief |
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Kaku Oze as Lt. General Tadakazu Wakamatsu - Vice-Minister for War |
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Makoto Satō as Major Hidemasa Koga - 1st Imperial Guards Division |
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Akira Kubo as Major Sadakichi Ishihara - 1st Imperial Guards Division |
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Naoya Kusakawa as Shunichi Nagatomo - NHK Engineer |
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Masao Akitsuki as Kamikaze |
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Seiichirō Nomura as Kamikaze |
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Hiroo Kirino as Kamikaze |
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Yasuo Araki as Decapitated Man |
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Kenjirō Ishiyama as General Shizuichi Tanaka - C-in-C Eastern District Army |
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Keikichi Taki as Colonel Tsukamoto - Tanaka's Adjutant |
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Susumu Fujita as Colonel Toyojiro Haga - CO Imperial Guards 2nd Infantry Regiment |
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Hiroshi Tanaka as Major Kobayashi |
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Yutaka Sada as Keisaku Sano |
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Tadayoshi Ueda as Komonta Sano |
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Nobuyuki Katsube as Lt. Colonel Michinori Shiraishi - General Mori's Brother-in-Law |
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Yūnosuke Itō as Major General Toshio Nonaka - CO 27th Air Brigade |
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Hiroshi Hasegawa as Guard Supporting the Insurgency |
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Hirayoshi Aono as Grand Chamberlain Hisanori Fujita |
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Kiyoshi Kodama as Chamberlain Yasuhide Toda |
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Torahiko Hamada as Chamberlain Yasuya Mitsui |
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Tadashi Fukuro as Chamberlain Sukemasa Irie |
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Keiju Kobayashi as Chamberlain Yoshihiro Tokugawa |
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Ichirō Nakatani as First Lieutnenant Kuroda |
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Tadasaburo Wakayama as Colonel Kazuo Mizutani - Chief of Staff to General Mori |
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Ren Yamamoto as Corporal |
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Yutaka Nakayama as Corporal |
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Kanta Mori as Maj. General Tatsuhiko Takashima - Chief of Staff E. Dist. Army |
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Tōru Ibuki as Lt. Colonel Toru Itagaki - Eastern District Army Staff Officer |
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Seishirō Kuno as Battalion Commander |
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Yasuzō Ogawa as Policeman |
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Yoshibumi Tajima as Colonel Watanabe - CO Imperial Guards 1st Infantry Regiment |
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Yūzō Kayama as Morio Tateno - NHK Broadcaster |
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Michiyo Aratama as Yuriko Hara |
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Akio Miyabe as Colonel Katsuhiko Inadome - Eastern District Army Staff Officer |
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Ginzô Sekiguchi as Chamberlain Okabe |
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Hiroshi Sekita as Staff Kamino |
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Hisashi Igawa as Kempeitai Lieutenant |
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Hiroshi Koizumi as Nobukata Wada - NHK Broadcaster |
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Matsumoto Hakuō I as Emperor Hirohito |
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Tatsuya Nakadai as Narrator (voice) |
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Itaru Ose as |
| Writing | Soichi Oya | Novel |
| Writing | Shinobu Hashimoto | Screenplay |
| Directing | Kihachi Okamoto | Director |
| Lighting | Tsuruzô Nishikawa | Lighting Technician |
| Sound | Shin Watarai | Sound Recordist |
| Art | Iwao Akune | Art Direction |
| Camera | Hiroshi Murai | Director of Photography |
| Production | Tomoyuki Tanaka | Producer |
| Production | Sanezumi Fujimoto | Producer |
| Sound | Masaru Satō | Original Music Composer |
| Editing | Yoshitami Kuroiwa | Editor |
| Directing | Michio Yamamoto | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Kunihiko Watanabe | Assistant Director |
