Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War
1957Meiji Tenno portrays the buildup to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political events that led to war, it also shows the era from the story of a farm family in rural Japan that sends their son off to war. As such, it could be considered an anti-war movie, showing how, while war is devised by governments, the people do not really understand what war is, and its combatants often do not know what they are fighting for.
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Kanjūrō Arashi
as Emperor Meiji
Kusuo Abe
as Hirobumi Itō
Minoru Takada
as Aritomo Yamagata
Shin Takemura
Susumu Fujita
as Kaoru Inoue
Yōji Misaki
as Prime Minister Katsura
Ureo Egawa
as Navy Minister Yamamoto
Tsunemi Hirose
as War Minister Terauchi
Fumio Hara
as Foreign Minister Komura
Hiroaki Kurahashi
as Finance Minister Sone
Jun Mihara
Eiichi Nobuo
as Field Marshal Ōyama
Arata Shibata
as General Kodama
Kōji Hirose
as Major General Nagaoka
Akira Nakamura
as Admiral Itō
Yōichi Numata
as Vice-Admiral Ijuin
Toshio Hosokawa
Jun Tazaki
as Vice-Admiral Tōgō
Yōnosuke Toba
as Vice-Admiral Kamimura
Mikio Namino
as Rear Admiral Uryū
Eiji Wakasugi
as Rear Admiral Katō
Hiroshi Ogasawara
Jūzaburō Akechi
as Commander Akiyama
Saburō Sawai
as Fleet staff officer
Teruo Wakatsuki
as Fleet staff officer
Yukio Kohama
as Navy Minister's aide
Tatsuhiro Oka
as Commander Arima
Ken Utsui
as Lieutenant Commander Hirose
Shinji Arima
as Private First Class Sugino
Akira Kato
as Captain Narukawa
Satoshi Komori
as Captain of the Mikasa
Den Kunikata
as First Officer of the Mikasa
Sōzaburō Kikuchi
as Squad Leader on the Mikasa
Shin Matsukata
as Gunnery Sergeant on the Mikasa
Yōzō Takamura
as Gunner on the Mikasa
Tōru Chiba
as Navigator on the Mikasa
Fumiya Nakamura
Hiroshi Hayashi
as General Nogi
Tadao Takashima
as Yasusuke Nogi
Shoji Nakayama
as Major General Ijichi
Kyoji Murayama
Shuntarō Emi
as Lieutenant Commander Yamaoka
Hiroshi Izumida
as Lieutenant Commander Yoshioka
Yutaka Maki
Tomohiko Ôtani
Tomisaburō Wakayama
as Major Tachibana
Minoru Asuka
Hiroshi Ayukawa
Yonosuke Akiyama
Kanjiro Nakamura
Akio Shirakawa
Tadashi Ikezuki
Yukio Sayama
Gen Funabashi
Keinosuke Wada
Masaru Kodaka
Asao Matsumoto
Ichirō Ryūzaki
as Dr. Tomizu
Masao Takamatsu
as Dr. Onozuka
Unpei Yokoyama
Shūji Kawabe
Kōtarō Sugie
Shinsuke Mikimoto
Shigeru Amachi
Tetsuro Tamba
as Rear Admiral Shimamura