Battle of Okinawa (film)
1971 Japanese film
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Battle of Okinawa (Japanese: 激動の昭和史 沖縄決戦, Hepburn: Gekidō no Shōwashi: Okinawa Kessen) is a 1971 Japanese war film directed by Kihachi Okamoto from a screenplay by Kaneto Shindo and Ryōzō Kasahara, with effects by Teruyoshi Nakano.[2][1][3]
Directed byKihachi Okamoto
Screenplay byKaneto Shindo[1]
Ryōzō Kasahara
Ryōzō Kasahara
Produced by
- Sanezumi Fujimoto
- Hiroshi Haryu[1]
Starring
- Keiju Kobayashi
- Tetsurō Tamba
- Tatsuya Nakadai
- Wakako Sakai
- Mayumi Ōzora
- Yūzō Kayama
- Ryō Ikebe
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| Directed by | Kihachi Okamoto |
| Screenplay by | Kaneto Shindo[1] Ryōzō Kasahara |
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| Narrated by | Kiyoshi Kobayashi |
| Cinematography | Hiroshi Murai[1] |
| Edited by | Yoshitami Kuroiwa |
| Music by | Masaru Sato[1] |
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Running time | 149 minutes[1] |
| Country | Japan |
Release
Battle of Okinawa received a roadshow theatrical release released on 17 July 1971 in Japan.[1] It received a general release in Japan on 14 August 1971.[4] The film was Toho's highest-grossing film of the year, and the fourth highest grossing domestic release of the year in Japan.[1]
The film was released theatrically in the United States by Min-On of America with a 149-minute running time on 11 September 1973.[1]
Cast
- Keijyu Kobayashi as Mitsuru Ushijima
- Tetsuro Tamba as Isamu Chō
- Tatsuya Nakadai as Hiromichi Yahara
- Yūsuke Kawazu as Jin
- Jūkei Fujioka as Sanada
- Ichirō Nakatani as Ueno
- Akira Yamanouchi as Shūichi Miyazaki
- Wakako Sakai as Tokashiki
- Jun Hamamura as Shuki Izumi
- Shigeru Kōyama as Akira Shimada
- Sachio Sakai
- Ryosuke Kagawa
- Kamatari Fujiwara
- Yūsuke Takita as Seizen Nakasone
- Minori Terada as Mitsuru Yoshida
- Hisashi Igawa as Itō
- Kunie Tanaka as Higa
- Gorō Mutsumi as Yakumaru
- Katsuhiko Sasaki as Miyake
- Mizuho Suzuki as Nakajima
- Shin Kishida as Meguro
- Etsushi Takahashi as Yokichi Kaya
- Takeo Chii as Ogura
- Eijirō Tōno as Yoshijirō Umezu
- Yūzō Kayama as Dr. Higa
- Kōji Mitsui as Old Man
- Ryō Ikebe as Minoru Ōta
