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.
Genres:
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
Tōru 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
Yoshifumi 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
Yû 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
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