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Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War (1957)
Directed by Kunio Watanabe
History, War, Drama · 1h 53m
Meiji 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.
Cast
Kanjūrō Arashi
Emperor Meiji
Kusuo Abe
Hirobumi Itō
Minoru Takada
Aritomo Yamagata
S
Shin Takemura
Susumu Fujita
Kaoru Inoue
Y
Yōji Misaki
Prime Minister Katsura
Ureo Egawa
Navy Minister Yamamoto
Tsunemi Hirose
War Minister Terauchi
F
Fumio Hara
Foreign Minister Komura
H
Hiroaki Kurahashi
Finance Minister Sone
J
Jun Mihara
E
Eiichi Nobuo
Field Marshal Ōyama
Crew
- Director
- Kunio Watanabe
- Screenplay
- Kunio Watanabe
- Director of Photography
- Takashi Watanabe
- Original Music Composer
- Seiichi Suzuki
Details
- Original title
- 明治天皇と日露大戦争
- Release date
- 1957-04-29
- Runtime
- 1h 53m
- Genres
- History, War, Drama
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Shintoho Company