Japan's Longest Day (1967)
2h 37m
Running Time
August 3, 1967Release Date
Japan's Longest Day (1967)
2h 37m
Running Time
August 3, 1967Release Date
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Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.

Seiji Miyaguchi
Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo

Rokkō Toura
Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Shunichi Matsumato

Chishū Ryū
Prime Minister Baron Kantaro Suzuki

Sō Yamamura
Navy Minister Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai

Toshirō Mifune
War Minister General Korechika Anami

Yoshio Kosugi
Minister of Public Welfare Keisuke Okade

Takashi Shimura
Information Bureau Director Hiroshi Shimomura

Etsushi Takahashi
Lt. Colonel Masutaka Ida

Takao Inoue
Lt. Colonel Masahiko Takeshita

Tadao Nakamaru
Lt. Colonel Jiro Shiizaki

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

Ryōsuke 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

Tōru Takeuchi
Naval Surgeon Kobayashi

Takeshi Katō
Cabinet Chief Secretary Hisatsune Sakomizu

Kyuzo Kawabe
Michio Kihara - Assistant to Sakomizu

Tatsuyoshi Ehara
Nobumasa Kawamoto - Private Secretary to Shimomura

Kazuko Iida
General

Shiro Kida
General

Shiyuki Tanaka
General

Keisuke Yamada
Journalist

Kōji Mitsui
Old Journalist

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

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

Goro Morino
Hachiro Ohashi - NHK Chairman

Yasuhisa Tsutsumi
Insurgent Commander

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

Daisuke Katō
Kenjiro Yabe - NHK Domestic Bureau Director

Shigeki Ishida
Daitaro Arakawa - NHK Technical Bureau Director

Jun Tazaki
Captain Yasuna Kozono - CO 302nd Air Group

Akihiko Hirata
Commander Sugahara - 302nd Air Group

Sachio Sakai
Atsugi Air Base Crew Chief

Nobuo Nakamura
Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal Marquis Koichi Kido

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

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

Akiji Nomura
Major Nakamura

Yū Fujiki
Colonel Seike - Military Aide to the Emperor

Kazuo Kitamura
Tomoo Sato - Cabinet General Affairs Section Chief

Fuyuki Murakami
Minister of Justice Hiromasa Matsuzaka

Hyo Kitazawa
Minister of Finance Hosaku Hirose

Masao Imafuku
Marshal Shunroku Hata

Hideyo Amamoto
Captain Takeo Sasaki

Shigeru Kōyama
Susumu Kato - Imperial Household General Affairs Section

Jun Hamamura
Motohike Kakei - Imperial Household General Affairs Chief

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

Makoto Satō
Major Hidemasa Koga - 1st Imperial Guards Division

Akira Kubo
Major Sadakichi Ishihara - 1st Imperial Guards Division

Naoya Kusakawa
Shunichi Nagatomo - NHK Engineer

Masao Akitsuki
Kamikaze

Seiichirō Nomura
Kamikaze

Hiroo Kirino
Kamikaze

Yasuo Araki
Decapitated Man

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

Keikichi Taki
Colonel Tsukamoto - Tanaka's Adjutant

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

Hiroshi Tanaka
Major Kobayashi

Yutaka Sada
Keisaku Sano

Tadayoshi Ueda
Komonta Sano

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

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

Hiroshi Hasegawa
Guard Supporting the Insurgency

Hirayoshi Aono
Grand Chamberlain Hisanori Fujita

Kiyoshi Kodama
Chamberlain Yasuhide Toda

Torahiko Hamada
Chamberlain Yasuya Mitsui

Tadashi Fukuro
Chamberlain Sukemasa Irie

Keiju Kobayashi
Chamberlain Yoshihiro Tokugawa

Ichirō Nakatani
First Lieutnenant Kuroda

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

Ren Yamamoto
Corporal

Yutaka Nakayama
Corporal

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

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

Seishirō Kuno
Battalion Commander

Yasuzō Ogawa
Policeman

Yoshifumi Tajima
Colonel Watanabe - CO Imperial Guards 1st Infantry Regiment

Yūzō Kayama
Morio Tateno - NHK Broadcaster

Michiyo Aratama
Yuriko Hara

Akio Miyabe
Colonel Katsuhiko Inadome - Eastern District Army Staff Officer

Ginzô Sekiguchi
Chamberlain Okabe

Yû Sekita
Staff Kamino

Hisashi Igawa
Kempeitai Lieutenant

Hiroshi Koizumi
Nobukata Wada - NHK Broadcaster

Matsumoto Hakuō I
Emperor Hirohito

Tatsuya Nakadai
Narrator (voice)
Media.



Details.
Release DateAugust 3, 1967
Original Name日本のいちばん長い日
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 37m
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
japan
world war ii
japanese army
japanese soldier
japanese surrender
hirohito
pacific war
Wiki.
Japan's Longest Day (Japanese: 日本のいちばん長い日, Hepburn: Nippon no ichiban nagai hi) is a 1967 Japanese epic war film directed by Kihachi Okamoto. The subject of the majority of the movie is the period between noon on August 14, 1945, and noon on August 15, 1945, when Emperor Hirohito's decision to surrender to the Allies in World War II was broadcast to the Japanese people, and the attempted coup d'état to prevent that from happening. Film historian Joseph L. Anderson describes the film as "a meticulous reconstruction of the day Japan surrendered and thus ended the Pacific War.
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