Japan's Longest Day

The dramatic true story of the end of WW II.

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the Army Anami leads the military officers who propose to fight on, even to the death of every Japanese citizen. Emperor Hirohito, however, joins with his ministers in asking the unthinkable, the peaceful surrender of Japan. When the military plots a coup to overthrow the Emperor's civilian government, Anami must face the choice between his desires and loyalty to his Emperor.

Seiji Miyaguchi

(Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo)

Rokkō Toura

(Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Shunichi Matsumato)

Chishū Ryū

(Prime Minister Baron Kantaro Suzuki)

Sō Yamamura

(Navy Minister Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai)

Toshirō Mifune

(War Minister General Korechika Anami)

Yoshio Kosugi

(Minister of Public Welfare Keisuke Okade)

Takashi Shimura

(Information Bureau Director Hiroshi Shimomura)

Etsushi Takahashi

(Lt. Colonel Masutaka Ida)

Takao Inoue

(Lt. Colonel Masahiko Takeshita)

Tadao Nakamaru

(Lt. Colonel Jiro Shiizaki)

Toshio Kurosawa

(Major Kenji Hatanaka - Military Affairs Section)

Akira Kitchôji

(General Yoshijiro Umezu - Chief of the Army General Staff)

Haruo Yamada

(Admiral Soemu Toyoda - Chief of the Navy General Staff)

Ryōsuke Kagawa

(Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Tadaatsu Ishiguro)

Ushio Akashi

(President of the Privy Council Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma)

Isao Tamagawa

(Colonel Okitsugu Arao - Chief of Military Affairs Section)

Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi

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

Tōru Takeuchi

(Naval Surgeon Kobayashi)

Takeshi Katō

(Cabinet Chief Secretary Hisatsune Sakomizu)

Kyuzo Kawabe

(Michio Kihara - Assistant to Sakomizu)

Tatsuyoshi Ehara

(Nobumasa Kawamoto - Private Secretary to Shimomura)

Kazuko Iida

(General)

Shiro Kida

(General)

Shiyuki Tanaka

(General)

Keisuke Yamada

(Journalist)

Kōji Mitsui

(Old Journalist)

Yoshio Tsuchiya

(Lt. Colonel Hiroshi Fuha - Eastern District Army Staff Officer)

Shōgo Shimada

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

Goro Morino

(Hachiro Ohashi - NHK Chairman)

Yasuhisa Tsutsumi

(Insurgent Commander)

Minoru Takada

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

Daisuke Katō

(Kenjiro Yabe - NHK Domestic Bureau Director)

Shigeki Ishida

(Daitaro Arakawa - NHK Technical Bureau Director)

Jun Tazaki

(Captain Yasuna Kozono - CO 302nd Air Group)

Akihiko Hirata

(Commander Sugahara - 302nd Air Group)

Sachio Sakai

(Atsugi Air Base Crew Chief)

Nobuo Nakamura

(Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal Marquis Koichi Kido)

Shin Tatsuoka

(Imperial Household Minister Sotaro Ishiwata (as Susumu Tatsuoka))

Ryuji Kita

(General Shigeru Hasunuma - Chief Military Aide to the Emperor)

Akiji Nomura

(Major Nakamura)

Yū Fujiki

(Colonel Seike - Military Aide to the Emperor)

Kazuo Kitamura

(Tomoo Sato - Cabinet General Affairs Section Chief)

Fuyuki Murakami

(Minister of Justice Hiromasa Matsuzaka)

Hyo Kitazawa

(Minister of Finance Hosaku Hirose)

Masao Imafuku

(Marshal Shunroku Hata)

Hideyo Amamoto

(Captain Takeo Sasaki)

Shigeru Kōyama

(Susumu Kato - Imperial Household General Affairs Section)

Jun Hamamura

(Motohike Kakei - Imperial Household General Affairs Chief)

Kaku Oze

(Lt. General Tadakazu Wakamatsu - Vice-Minister for War)

Makoto Satō

(Major Hidemasa Koga - 1st Imperial Guards Division)

Akira Kubo

(Major Sadakichi Ishihara - 1st Imperial Guards Division)

Naoya Kusakawa

(Shunichi Nagatomo - NHK Engineer)

Masao Akitsuki

(Kamikaze)

Seiichirō Nomura

(Kamikaze)

Hiroo Kirino

(Kamikaze)

Yasuo Araki

(Decapitated Man)

Kenjirō Ishiyama

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

Keikichi Taki

(Colonel Tsukamoto - Tanaka's Adjutant)

Susumu Fujita

(Colonel Toyojiro Haga - CO Imperial Guards 2nd Infantry Regiment)

Hiroshi Tanaka

(Major Kobayashi)

Yutaka Sada

(Keisaku Sano)

Tadayoshi Ueda

(Komonta Sano)

Nobuyuki Katsube

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

Yūnosuke Itō

(Major General Toshio Nonaka - CO 27th Air Brigade)

Hiroshi Hasegawa

(Guard Supporting the Insurgency)

Hirayoshi Aono

(Grand Chamberlain Hisanori Fujita)

Kiyoshi Kodama

(Chamberlain Yasuhide Toda)

Torahiko Hamada

(Chamberlain Yasuya Mitsui)

Tadashi Fukuro

(Chamberlain Sukemasa Irie)

Keiju Kobayashi

(Chamberlain Yoshihiro Tokugawa)

Ichirō Nakatani

(First Lieutnenant Kuroda)

Tadasaburo Wakayama

(Colonel Kazuo Mizutani - Chief of Staff to General Mori)

Ren Yamamoto

(Corporal)

Yutaka Nakayama

(Corporal)

Kanta Mori

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

Tôru Ibuki

(Lt. Colonel Toru Itagaki - Eastern District Army Staff Officer)

Seishirō Kuno

(Battalion Commander)

Yasuzō Ogawa

(Policeman)

Yoshifumi Tajima

(Colonel Watanabe - CO Imperial Guards 1st Infantry Regiment)

Yūzō Kayama

(Morio Tateno - NHK Broadcaster)

Michiyo Aratama

(Yuriko Hara)

Akio Miyabe

(Colonel Katsuhiko Inadome - Eastern District Army Staff Officer)

Ginzô Sekiguchi

(Chamberlain Okabe)

Yû Sekita

(Staff Kamino)

Hisashi Igawa

(Kempeitai Lieutenant)

Hiroshi Koizumi

(Nobukata Wada - NHK Broadcaster)

Matsumoto Hakuō I

(Emperor Hirohito)

Tatsuya Nakadai

(Narrator (voice))