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Japan's Longest Day Cast & Crew

"The dramatic true story of the end of WWII."

1968 · 2h 37m

72

Audience

72

Audience

Starring Cast

Key crew

Director

Kihachi Okamoto

Screenplay

Shinobu Hashimoto

Based on

Soichi Oya

Producers

Sanezumi Fujimoto , Tomoyuki Tanaka

Music

Masaru Satō

Cinematography

Hiroshi Murai

Editor

Yoshitami Kuroiwa

Full cast

89 cast members

Seiji Miyaguchi

Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo

Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Shunichi Matsumato

Prime Minister Baron Kantaro Suzuki

Navy Minister Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai

Toshirō Mifune

War Minister General Korechika Anami

Minister of Public Welfare Keisuke Okade

Takashi Shimura

Information Bureau Director Hiroshi Shimomura

Etsushi Takahashi

Lt. Colonel Masutaka Ida

Lt. Colonel Masahiko Takeshita

Lt. Colonel Jiro Shiizaki

Toshio Kurosawa

Major Kenji Hatanaka - Military Affairs Section

Akira Kitchôji

General Yoshijiro Umezu - Chief of the Army General Staff

Admiral Soemu Toyoda - Chief of the Navy General Staff

Ryōsuke Kagawa

Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Tadaatsu Ishiguro

President of the Privy Council Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma

Colonel Okitsugu Arao - Chief of Military Affairs Section

Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi

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

Naval Surgeon Kobayashi

Cabinet Chief Secretary Hisatsune Sakomizu

Michio Kihara - Assistant to Sakomizu

Tatsuyoshi Ehara

Nobumasa Kawamoto - Private Secretary to Shimomura

Kazuko Iida

General

Shiro Kida

General

Shiyuki Tanaka

General

Yoshio Tsuchiya

Lt. Colonel Hiroshi Fuha - Eastern District Army Staff Officer

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

Hachiro Ohashi - NHK Chairman

Yasuhisa Tsutsumi

Insurgent Commander

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

Kenjiro Yabe - NHK Domestic Bureau Director

Daitaro Arakawa - NHK Technical Bureau Director

Captain Yasuna Kozono - CO 302nd Air Group

Commander Sugahara - 302nd Air Group

Atsugi Air Base Crew Chief

Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal Marquis Koichi Kido

Imperial Household Minister Sotaro Ishiwata (as Susumu Tatsuoka)

General Shigeru Hasunuma - Chief Military Aide to the Emperor

Akiji Nomura

Major Nakamura

Colonel Seike - Military Aide to the Emperor

Tomoo Sato - Cabinet General Affairs Section Chief

Fuyuki Murakami

Minister of Justice Hiromasa Matsuzaka

Minister of Finance Hosaku Hirose

Marshal Shunroku Hata

Captain Takeo Sasaki

Shigeru Kōyama

Susumu Kato - Imperial Household General Affairs Section

Motohike Kakei - Imperial Household General Affairs Chief

Kaku Oze

Lt. General Tadakazu Wakamatsu - Vice-Minister for War

Major Hidemasa Koga - 1st Imperial Guards Division

Major Sadakichi Ishihara - 1st Imperial Guards Division

Shunichi Nagatomo - NHK Engineer

Masao Akitsuki

Kamikaze

Seiichirō Nomura

Decapitated Man

Kenjirō Ishiyama

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

Keikichi Taki

Colonel Tsukamoto - Tanaka's Adjutant

Colonel Toyojiro Haga - CO Imperial Guards 2nd Infantry Regiment

Major Kobayashi

Nobuyuki Katsube

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

Major General Toshio Nonaka - CO 27th Air Brigade

Hiroshi Hasegawa

Guard Supporting the Insurgency

Grand Chamberlain Hisanori Fujita

Chamberlain Yasuhide Toda

Torahiko Hamada

Chamberlain Yasuya Mitsui

Chamberlain Sukemasa Irie

Keiju Kobayashi

Chamberlain Yoshihiro Tokugawa

Ichirō Nakatani

First Lieutnenant Kuroda

Tadasaburo Wakayama

Colonel Kazuo Mizutani - Chief of Staff to General Mori

Yutaka Nakayama

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

Lt. Colonel Toru Itagaki - Eastern District Army Staff Officer

Battalion Commander

Yoshibumi Tajima

Colonel Watanabe - CO Imperial Guards 1st Infantry Regiment

Morio Tateno - NHK Broadcaster

Michiyo Aratama

Colonel Katsuhiko Inadome - Eastern District Army Staff Officer

Ginzô Sekiguchi

Chamberlain Okabe

Kempeitai Lieutenant

Hiroshi Koizumi

Nobukata Wada - NHK Broadcaster

Matsumoto Hakuō I

Emperor Hirohito

Tatsuya Nakadai

Narrator (voice)

Crew by department

13 crew members

Directing

Kihachi Okamoto

Kunihiko Watanabe

Assistant Director

Michio Yamamoto

Assistant Director

Director of Photography

Writing

Soichi Oya

Novel

Shinobu Hashimoto

Production

Sanezumi Fujimoto

Tomoyuki Tanaka

Camera

Tsuruzô Nishikawa

Lighting Technician

Editing

Yoshitami Kuroiwa

Sound

Sound Recordist

Music

Original Music Composer

Art

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