Seiji Miyaguchi as Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo

Rokkō Toura as Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Shunichi Matsumato

Chishū Ryū as Prime Minister Baron Kantaro Suzuki

Sō Yamamura as Navy Minister Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai

Toshirō Mifune as War Minister General Korechika Anami

Yoshio Kosugi as Minister of Public Welfare Keisuke Okade

Takashi Shimura as Information Bureau Director Hiroshi Shimomura

Etsushi Takahashi as Lt. Colonel Masutaka Ida

Takao Inoue as Lt. Colonel Masahiko Takeshita

Tadao Nakamaru as Lt. Colonel Jiro Shiizaki

Toshio Kurosawa as Major Kenji Hatanaka - Military Affairs Section

Akira Kitchôji as General Yoshijiro Umezu - Chief of the Army General Staff

Haruo Yamada as Admiral Soemu Toyoda - Chief of the Navy General Staff

Ryōsuke Kagawa as Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Tadaatsu Ishiguro

Ushio Akashi as President of the Privy Council Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma

Isao Tamagawa as Colonel Okitsugu Arao - Chief of Military Affairs Section

Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi as Admiral Takijiro Onishi - Vice-Chief of the Naval General Staff

Toru Takeuchi as Naval Surgeon Kobayashi

Takeshi Katō as Cabinet Chief Secretary Hisatsune Sakomizu

Kyuzo Kawabe as Michio Kihara - Assistant to Sakomizu

Tatsuyoshi Ehara as Nobumasa Kawamoto - Private Secretary to Shimomura

Kazuko Iida as General

Shiro Kida as General

Shiyuki Tanaka as General

Keisuke Yamada as Journalist

Kōji Mitsui as Old Journalist

Yoshio Tsuchiya as Lt. Colonel Hiroshi Fuha - Eastern District Army Staff Officer

Shōgo Shimada as Lt. General Takeshi Mori - CO 1st Imperial Guards Division

Goro Morino as Hachiro Ohashi - NHK Chairman

Yasuhisa Tsutsumi as Insurgent Commander

Minoru Takada as Vice Admiral Zenshiro Hoshina - Dir. of the Naval Affairs Bureau

Daisuke Katō as Kenjiro Yabe - NHK Domestic Bureau Director

Shigeki Ishida as Daitaro Arakawa - NHK Technical Bureau Director

Jun Tazaki as Captain Yasuna Kozono - CO 302nd Air Group

Akihiko Hirata as Commander Sugahara - 302nd Air Group

Sachio Sakai as Atsugi Air Base Crew Chief

Nobuo Nakamura as Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal Marquis Koichi Kido

Shin Tatsuoka as Imperial Household Minister Sotaro Ishiwata (as Susumu Tatsuoka)

Ryuji Kita as General Shigeru Hasunuma - Chief Military Aide to the Emperor

Akiji Nomura as Major Nakamura

Yū Fujiki as Colonel Seike - Military Aide to the Emperor

Kazuo Kitamura as Tomoo Sato - Cabinet General Affairs Section Chief

Fuyuki Murakami as Minister of Justice Hiromasa Matsuzaka

Hyo Kitazawa as Minister of Finance Hosaku Hirose

Masao Imafuku as Marshal Shunroku Hata

Hideyo Amamoto as Captain Takeo Sasaki

Shigeru Kōyama as Susumu Kato - Imperial Household General Affairs Section

Jun Hamamura as Motohike Kakei - Imperial Household General Affairs Chief

Kaku Oze as Lt. General Tadakazu Wakamatsu - Vice-Minister for War

Makoto Satō as Major Hidemasa Koga - 1st Imperial Guards Division

Akira Kubo as Major Sadakichi Ishihara - 1st Imperial Guards Division

Naoya Kusakawa as Shunichi Nagatomo - NHK Engineer

Masao Akitsuki as Kamikaze

Seiichirō Nomura as Kamikaze

Hiroo Kirino as Kamikaze

Yasuo Araki as Decapitated Man

Kenjirō Ishiyama as General Shizuichi Tanaka - C-in-C Eastern District Army

Keikichi Taki as Colonel Tsukamoto - Tanaka's Adjutant

Susumu Fujita as Colonel Toyojiro Haga - CO Imperial Guards 2nd Infantry Regiment

Hiroshi Tanaka as Major Kobayashi

Yutaka Sada as Keisaku Sano

Tadayoshi Ueda as Komonta Sano

Nobuyuki Katsube as Lt. Colonel Michinori Shiraishi - General Mori's Brother-in-Law

Yūnosuke Itō as Major General Toshio Nonaka - CO 27th Air Brigade

Hiroshi Hasegawa as Guard Supporting the Insurgency

Hirayoshi Aono as Grand Chamberlain Hisanori Fujita

Kiyoshi Kodama as Chamberlain Yasuhide Toda

Torahiko Hamada as Chamberlain Yasuya Mitsui

Tadashi Fukuro as Chamberlain Sukemasa Irie

Keiju Kobayashi as Chamberlain Yoshihiro Tokugawa

Ichirō Nakatani as First Lieutnenant Kuroda

Tadasaburo Wakayama as Colonel Kazuo Mizutani - Chief of Staff to General Mori

Ren Yamamoto as Corporal

Yutaka Nakayama as Corporal

Kanta Mori as Maj. General Tatsuhiko Takashima - Chief of Staff E. Dist. Army

Tōru Ibuki as Lt. Colonel Toru Itagaki - Eastern District Army Staff Officer

Seishirō Kuno as Battalion Commander

Yasuzō Ogawa as Policeman

Yoshibumi Tajima as Colonel Watanabe - CO Imperial Guards 1st Infantry Regiment

Yūzō Kayama as Morio Tateno - NHK Broadcaster

Michiyo Aratama as Yuriko Hara

Akio Miyabe as Colonel Katsuhiko Inadome - Eastern District Army Staff Officer

Ginzô Sekiguchi as Chamberlain Okabe

Hiroshi Sekita as Staff Kamino

Hisashi Igawa as Kempeitai Lieutenant

Hiroshi Koizumi as Nobukata Wada - NHK Broadcaster

Matsumoto Hakuō I as Emperor Hirohito

Tatsuya Nakadai as Narrator (voice)

Itaru Ose as