
The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imperial command sends top generals and several army divisions to defend it at all costs. The mission quickly degenerates as vital resources and troops are diverted to other islands. After a civilian evacuation ends in tragedy most of non-combatants are forced to remain on the island. Many convert to soldier status. Tokyo sends mixed messages that squander time and resources, as when they order the defenders to build an airstrip for aircraft that never come. The truth soon becomes obvious: the high command decides that the island cannot be held and effectively abandons the Okinawan defenders. When the Americans land many troops are deployed in the wrong places. As the slaughter mounts, a suicidal attitude takes hold. Okinawa becomes a death trap, for civilian volunteers and non-combatants as well.
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Keiju Kobayashi as General Ushijima

Yūzō Kayama as

Tetsuro Tamba as Lieutenant General Isamu Cho

Tatsuya Nakadai as Colonel Hiromichi Yahara

Mayumi Ozora as

Kenji Sahara as

Katsuhiko Sasaki as Communications Officer Miyake

Hideyo Amamoto as Okinawa Regional Officer

Ryō Ikebe as Rear Admiral Ota

Ichirō Nakatani as Chief of Staff Ueno

Gorō Mutsumi as

Kamatari Fujiwara as

Takamaru Sasaki as

Akira Yamanouchi as

Eijirō Tōno as

Sachio Sakai as

Ren Yamamoto as Sergeant Omori

Seishirō Kuno as

Chōtarō Tōgin as

Wataru Ōmae as

Shōichi Hirose as

Yutaka Sada as

Kazuo Suzuki as

Yutaka Nakayama as

Zan Fujita as

Hiroshi Hasegawa as

Masao Imafuku as

Kōji Iwamoto as

Haruya Katō as

Hiroyuki Kawase as

Naoya Kusakawa as

Machiko Naka as

Toshiko Nakano as

Masanobu Oki as

Kunie Tanaka as

Wakako Sakai as

Akira Nishikawa as

Kenjirō Ishiyama as

Shin Kishida as

Shigeru Kōyama as

Michitarō Mizushima as

Etsushi Takahashi as

Kotaro Tomita as

Jun Hamamura as

Kōji Mitsui as

Itaru Ose as
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