
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.
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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)
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