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Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War

8 average rating
★★★★★
8
Japanese / 113 MIN. / 1957

The Genres

The Synopsis

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.

The Cast

Kanjūrō ArashiKusuo AbeMinoru TakadaShin TakemuraSusumu FujitaYōji MisakiUreo EgawaTsunemi HiroseFumio HaraHiroaki KurahashiJun MiharaEiichi NobuoArata ShibataKoji HiroseAkira NakamuraYōichi NumataToshio HosokawaJun TazakiYōnosuke TobaMikio NaminoEiji WakasugiHiroshi OgasawaraJūzaburō AkechiSaburō SawaiTeruo WakatsukiYukio KohamaTatsuhiro OkaKen UtsuiShinji ArimaAkira KatoSatoshi KomoriDen KunikataSōzaburō KikuchiShin MatsukataYōzō TakamuraTōru ChibaFumiya NakamuraHiroshi HayashiTadao TakashimaShoji NakayamaKyoji MurayamaShuntarō EmiHiroshi IzumidaYutaka MakiTomohiko ÔtaniTomisaburō WakayamaMinoru AsukaHiroshi AyukawaYonosuke AkiyamaKanjiro NakamuraAkio ShirakawaTadashi IkezukiYukio SayamaGen FunabashiKeinosuke WadaMasaru KodakaAsao MatsumotoIchirō RyūzakiMasao TakamatsuUnpei YokoyamaShūji KawabeKōtarō SugieShinsuke MikimotoShigeru AmachiTetsuro Tamba

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