Meiji Tenno portrays the buildup to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political events that led to war, it also shows the era from the story of a farm family in rural Japan that sends their son off to war. As such, it could be considered an anti-war movie, showing how, while war is devised by governments, the people do not really understand what war is, and its combatants often do not know what they are fighting for.
Kanjūrō Arashi
Kusuo Abe
Minoru Takada
Shin Takemura
Susumu Fujita
Yōji Misaki
Ureo Egawa
Tsunemi Hirose
Fumio Hara
Hiroaki Kurahashi
Jun Mihara
Eiichi Nobuo
Arata Shibata
Kōji Hirose
Akira Nakamura
Yōichi Numata
Toshio Hosokawa
Jun Tazaki
Yōnosuke Toba
Mikio Namino
Eiji Wakasugi
Hiroshi Ogasawara
Jūzaburō Akechi
Saburō Sawai
Teruo Wakatsuki
Yukio Kohama
Tatsuhiro Oka
Ken Utsui
Shinji Arima
Akira Kato
Satoshi Komori
Den Kunikata
Sōzaburō Kikuchi
Shin Matsukata
Yōzō Takamura
Tōru Chiba
Fumiya Nakamura
Hiroshi Hayashi
Tadao Takashima
Shoji Nakayama
Kyoji Murayama
Shuntarō Emi
Hiroshi Izumida
Yutaka Maki
Tomohiko Ôtani
Tomisaburō Wakayama
Minoru Asuka
Hiroshi Ayukawa
Yonosuke Akiyama
Kanjiro Nakamura
Akio Shirakawa
Tadashi Ikezuki
Yukio Sayama
Gen Funabashi
Keinosuke Wada
Masaru Kodaka
Asao Matsumoto
Ichirō Ryūzaki
Masao Takamatsu
Unpei Yokoyama
Shūji Kawabe
Kōtarō Sugie
Shinsuke Mikimoto
Shigeru Amachi
Tetsuro Tamba