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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