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Japan's Longest Day

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.

1967 |2h 37m |  Drama, History, War

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Seiji Miyaguchi

Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo

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Rokkō Toura

Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Shunichi Matsumato

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Chishū Ryū

Prime Minister Baron Kantaro Suzuki

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Sō Yamamura

Navy Minister Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai

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Toshirō Mifune

War Minister General Korechika Anami

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Yoshio Kosugi

Minister of Public Welfare Keisuke Okade

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Takashi Shimura

Information Bureau Director Hiroshi Shimomura

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Etsushi Takahashi

Lt. Colonel Masutaka Ida

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Tadao Nakamaru

Lt. Colonel Jiro Shiizaki

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Toshio Kurosawa

Major Kenji Hatanaka - Military Affairs Section

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Ryōsuke Kagawa

Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Tadaatsu Ishiguro

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Ushio Akashi

President of the Privy Council Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma

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Isao Tamagawa

Colonel Okitsugu Arao - Chief of Military Affairs Section

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Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi

Admiral Takijiro Onishi - Vice-Chief of the Naval General Staff

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Takeshi Katō

Cabinet Chief Secretary Hisatsune Sakomizu

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Kyuzo Kawabe

Michio Kihara - Assistant to Sakomizu

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Tatsuyoshi Ehara

Nobumasa Kawamoto - Private Secretary to Shimomura

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Kōji Mitsui

Old Journalist

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Yoshio Tsuchiya

Lt. Colonel Hiroshi Fuha - Eastern District Army Staff Officer

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Shōgo Shimada

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

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Yasuhisa Tsutsumi

Insurgent Commander

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Minoru Takada

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

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Daisuke Katō

Kenjiro Yabe - NHK Domestic Bureau Director

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Jun Tazaki

Captain Yasuna Kozono - CO 302nd Air Group

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Akihiko Hirata

Commander Sugahara - 302nd Air Group

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Sachio Sakai

Atsugi Air Base Crew Chief

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Nobuo Nakamura

Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal Marquis Koichi Kido

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Ryuji Kita

General Shigeru Hasunuma - Chief Military Aide to the Emperor

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Yū Fujiki

Colonel Seike - Military Aide to the Emperor

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Kazuo Kitamura

Tomoo Sato - Cabinet General Affairs Section Chief

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Fuyuki Murakami

Minister of Justice Hiromasa Matsuzaka

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Hyo Kitazawa

Minister of Finance Hosaku Hirose

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Masao Imafuku

Marshal Shunroku Hata

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Hideyo Amamoto

Captain Takeo Sasaki

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Shigeru Kōyama

Susumu Kato - Imperial Household General Affairs Section

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Jun Hamamura

Motohike Kakei - Imperial Household General Affairs Chief

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Makoto Satō

Major Hidemasa Koga - 1st Imperial Guards Division

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Akira Kubo

Major Sadakichi Ishihara - 1st Imperial Guards Division

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Naoya Kusakawa

Shunichi Nagatomo - NHK Engineer

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Kenjirō Ishiyama

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

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Susumu Fujita

Colonel Toyojiro Haga - CO Imperial Guards 2nd Infantry Regiment

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Hiroshi Tanaka

Major Kobayashi

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Yutaka Sada

Keisaku Sano

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Nobuyuki Katsube

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

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Yūnosuke Itō

Major General Toshio Nonaka - CO 27th Air Brigade

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Hirayoshi Aono

Grand Chamberlain Hisanori Fujita

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Kiyoshi Kodama

Chamberlain Yasuhide Toda

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Torahiko Hamada

Chamberlain Yasuya Mitsui

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Keiju Kobayashi

Chamberlain Yoshihiro Tokugawa

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Ichirō Nakatani

First Lieutnenant Kuroda

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Ren Yamamoto

Corporal

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Yutaka Nakayama

Corporal

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Tôru Ibuki

Lt. Colonel Toru Itagaki - Eastern District Army Staff Officer

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Yoshifumi Tajima

Colonel Watanabe - CO Imperial Guards 1st Infantry Regiment

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Yūzō Kayama

Morio Tateno - NHK Broadcaster

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Michiyo Aratama

Yuriko Hara

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Hisashi Igawa

Kempeitai Lieutenant

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Hiroshi Koizumi

Nobukata Wada - NHK Broadcaster

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Matsumoto Hakuō I

Emperor Hirohito

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Tatsuya Nakadai

Narrator (voice)

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