The Militarists
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Directed byHiromichi Horikawa
Screenplay byRyozo Kasahara[1]
Starring
- Keiju Kobayashi
- Yūzō Kayama
- Sō Yamamura
- Toshio Kurosawa
- Tatsuya Mihashi
- Toshiro Mifune
Narrated byKiyoshi Kobayashi
| The Militarists | |
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| Directed by | Hiromichi Horikawa |
| Screenplay by | Ryozo Kasahara[1] |
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| Narrated by | Kiyoshi Kobayashi |
| Cinematography | Kazuo Yamada [1] |
| Music by | Riichiro Manabe[1] |
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| Distributed by | Toho |
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Running time | 133 minutes[1] |
| Country | Japan |
The Militarists (Japanese: 激動の昭和史 軍閥, Hepburn: Gekido no Showa shi-Gunbatsu) is a 1970 Japanese film directed by Hiromichi Horikawa.[1][2][3]
The Militarists had a roadshow release in Japan on 11 August 1970 where it was distributed by Toho.[1] It received general release 12 September 1970 in Japan.[4] The film was Toho's highest grossing release of the year and the second highest grossing Japanese film production in 1970.[1]
The film was released in the United States as Gunbatsu (The Militarists) with English subtitles by Toho International.[1] It was released 10 March 1971.[1]
Cast
- Keiju Kobayashi as Hideki Tōjō
- Yūzō Kayama as Gorō Arai
- Tatsuya Mihashi as Takijirō Ōnishi
- Seiji Miyaguchi as Shigenori Tōgō
- Akira Kubo as Takami
- Ichirō Nakatani as Sano
- Yoshio Tsuchiya as Okabe
- Gorō Mutsumi as Ishida
- Akihiko Hirata as Tomita
- Ryūji Kita as Koshirō Oikawa
- Sachio Sakai as Kitamura
- Kazuo Kitamura as Yamanaka
- Takashi Shimura as Takeda
- Jūkei Fujioka as Nakata
- Shin Kishida as Takakura
- Toshio Kurosawa as Shimagaki
- Masao Shimizu as Saburō Kurusu
- Susumu Fujita as Osami Nagano
- Sō Yamamura (special appearance) as Mitsumasa Yonai
- Toshirō Mifune as Isoroku Yamamoto
