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Japan's Longest Day, also known as The Emperor and the General, is a 1967 movie directed by Kihachi Okamoto. The subject of the majority of the movie is the period between noon on August 14, 1945, when Emperor Hirohito made the decision to surrender to the Allies in World War II and noon on August 15, 1945, when the emperor's taped message announcing the surrender was broadcast to the Japanese people. Joseph L. Anderson describes the film as "a meticulous reconstruction of the day Japan surrendered and thus ended the Pacific War. Several of Japan's most famous actors of the day participated in the film. These included Chishū Ryū as Prime Minister Kantaro Suzuki, Toshirō Mifune as War Minister Korechika Anami, Takashi Shimura as Information Bureau Director Hiroshi Shimomura and Sō Yamamura as Navy Minister Mitsumasa Yonai. Tatsuya Nakadai serves as the narrator.
Original Release
08/03/1967
US Release
03/26/1968
Cast
Name | Character |
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Seiji Miyaguchi | Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo |
Rokko Toura | Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Shunichi Matsumato / Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Shunichi Matsumoto |
Chishû Ryû | Prime Minister Baron Kantaro Suzuki |
Sô Yamamura | Navy Minister Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai |
Toshirô Mifune | War Minister General Korechika Anami |
Yoshio Kosugi | Minister of Public Welfare Keisuke Okade / Minister of Public Welfare Keisuke Okada |
Takashi Shimura | Information Bureau Director Hiroshi Shimomura |
Etsushi Takahashi | Lt. Colonel Masutaka Ida / Lt. Colonel Masutaka Ida - Military Affairs Section |
Takao Inoue | Lt. Colonel Masahiko Takeshita / Lt. Colonel Masahiko Takeshita - Military Affairs Section |
Tadao Nakamaru | Lt. Colonel Jiro Shiizaki / Lt. Colonel Jiro Shiizaki - Military Affairs Section |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Seiji Miyaguchi | Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo |
Rokko Toura | Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Shunichi Matsumato / Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Shunichi Matsumoto |
Chishû Ryû | Prime Minister Baron Kantaro Suzuki |
Sô Yamamura | Navy Minister Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai |
Toshirô Mifune | War Minister General Korechika Anami |
Yoshio Kosugi | Minister of Public Welfare Keisuke Okade / Minister of Public Welfare Keisuke Okada |
Takashi Shimura | Information Bureau Director Hiroshi Shimomura |
Etsushi Takahashi | Lt. Colonel Masutaka Ida / Lt. Colonel Masutaka Ida - Military Affairs Section |
Takao Inoue | Lt. Colonel Masahiko Takeshita / Lt. Colonel Masahiko Takeshita - Military Affairs Section |
Tadao Nakamaru | Lt. Colonel Jiro Shiizaki / Lt. Colonel Jiro Shiizaki - Military Affairs Section |
Toshio Kurosawa | Major Kenji Hatanaka - Military Affairs Section |
Akira Kitchôji | General Yoshijiro Umezu - Chief of the Army General Staff |
Haruo Yamada | Admiral Soemu Toyoda - Chief of the Navy General Staff / Admiral Soemu Toyoda - Chief of the Naval General Staff |
Ryôsuke Kagawa | Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Tadaatsu Ishiguro |
Ushio Akashi | President of the Privy Council Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma |
Isao Tamagawa | Colonel Okitsugu Arao - Chief of Military Affairs Section |
Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi | Admiral Takijiro Onishi - Vice-Chief of the Naval General Staff |
Tôru Takeuchi | Naval Surgeon Kobayashi |
Takeshi Katô | Cabinet Chief Secretary Hisatsune Sakomizu |
Kyûzô Kawabe | Michio Kihara - Assistant to Sakomizu |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Sanezumi Fujimoto | Producer |
Tomoyuki Tanaka | Producer |