The Militarists

The second film in Toho's series on the military history of the Showa era, Hiromichi Horikawa's war drama offers a look at the career of controversial politician Hideki Tojo and the strained relationships between Japan's government, military, and the media.

Drama War

Keiju Kobayashi

(Premier Hideki Tojo)

Toshirō Mifune

(Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto)

So Yamamura

(Mitsumasa Yonai)

Yūzō Kayama

(Goro Arai)

Matagoro Nakamura III

(The Emperor)

Tatsuya Mihashi

(Takijiro Onishi)

Seiji Miyaguchi

(Shinegori Togo)

Nobuo Nakamura

(Koichi Kido)

Masao Shimizu

(Saburo Kurusu)

Shigeru Kōyama

(Fumimaro Konoe)

Kenjirō Ishiyama

(Hajime Sugiyama)

Ryuji Kita

(Koshiro Oikawa)

Toshio Hosokawa

(Shigetaro Shimada)

Tatsuo Matsushita

(Kotaro Watanabe)

Keizo Sasagawa

(Teijiro Toyoda)

Susumu Fujita

(Osami Nagano)

Yasumi Hara

(Etsuzo Kurihara)

Tōru Abe

(Chuichi Nagumo)

Jun Funato

(Kameto Kuroshima)

Yoshibumi Tajima

(Seiichi Ito)

Nami Tamura

(Kimie Arai)

Yoko Minakaze

(Katsuko Tojo)

Ichirō Nakatani

(Sano)

Gorō Tarumi

(Takei)

Gorō Mutsumi

(Officer Ishida)

Kanta Mori

(Koyama)

Isao Tamagawa

(Tsukamoto)

Jūkei Fujioka

(Nakata)

Yoshirō Aoki

(Tsuji)

Toshio Kurosawa

(Shimagaki)

Ken Hatano

(Nakagawa)

Yoshio Tsuchiya

(Okawa)

Rinsaku Ogata

(Fukuyama)

Akihiko Hirata

(Tomita)

Kenji Sahara

(Okamoto)

Chōtarō Tōgin

(Shoji)

Tatsuyoshi Ehara

(Mikuni)

Akira Kubo

(Takami)

Yoshio Katsube

(Akagi)

Wataru Ōmae

(Nagato)

Jun'ichirō Mukai

(Fleet Commander)

Sachio Sakai

(Kitamura)

Takashi Shimura

(Takeda)

Gen Shimizu

(Yoshizawa)

Kazuo Kitamura

(Yamanaka)

Shigeo Nakahara

(Tamada)

Minori Terada

(Fujii)

Sumio Takatsu

(Yokoyama)

Shin Kishida

(Takakura)

Yutaka Sada

(Goto)

Hideyo Amamoto

(Fuyuki)

Takao Itō

(Nakamura)

Hiroshi Tanaka

(Yuki)

Hiroto Kimura

(Tamiya)

Shogen Nitta

(Oka)

Kazuo Suzuki

(Petty Officer)

Kōji Iwamoto

(Messenger)

Genki Koyama

(Teiichi Suzuki)

Yoshio Ochiai

(Keisuke Okada)

Ryuichi Fujiyama

(Hirota Koki)

Takamaru Sasaki

(Reijiro Wakatsuki)

Yasumasa Oka

(Nobuyuki Abe)

Seiichirō Nomura

(Kiichiro Hiranuma)

Ushio Akashi

(Korekiyo Takahashi)

Keiichirō Katsumoto

(Minister (Konoe Cabinet))

Hiroyoshi Yamaguchi

(Minister (Konoe Cabinet))

Someshō Matsumoto

(Minister (Konoe-Tojo Cabinet))

Jotaro Togami

(Minister (Konoe-Tojo Cabinet))

Zenji Yamada

(Minister (Tojo Cabinet))

Kotaro Tomita

(Tomimoto)

Kunihiko Shiihara

(Tabe)

Youichi Miyagawa

(Sugimura)

Shōichi Hirose

(Soldier)

Haruya Katō

(Reporter)

Yōko Yano

(Young mother)

Kiyoshi Kobayashi

(Narrator (voice))

Akira Katayama

(Minister (uncredited))