Japan's Longest Day (1967)
Overview
A dramatisation of the 24-hour period in which the Japanese government was deadlocked over the decision to accept or reject the Allies' demand for an unconditional surrender following the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Cast
Seiji Miyaguchi
Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo
Rokkō Toura
Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Shunichi Matsumato
Chishū Ryū
Prime Minister Baron Kantaro Suzuki
So 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
Tadao Nakamaru
Lt. Colonel Jiro Shiizaki
Toshio Kurosawa
Major Kenji Hatanaka - Military Affairs Section
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
Takeshi Katō
Cabinet Chief Secretary Hisatsune Sakomizu
Kyuzo Kawabe
Michio Kihara - Assistant to SakomizuRecommendations
Emperor
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Flags of Our Fathers
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
Letters from Iwo Jima
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Empire of the Sun
Sekigahara
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
Pork Chop Hill
11 Rebels
The Last Rifleman
Walking with the Enemy
Flyboys
In This Corner of the World
Wife of a Spy
Fires on the Plain
Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet
Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins
The Thin Red Line