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
Rokkō Toura
Chishū Ryū
Sō Yamamura
Toshirō Mifune
Yoshio Kosugi
Takashi Shimura
Etsushi Takahashi
Takao Inoue
Tadao Nakamaru
Toshio Kurosawa
Akira Kitchôji
Haruo Yamada
Ryōsuke Kagawa
Ushio Akashi
Isao Tamagawa
Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi
Tōru Takeuchi
Takeshi Katō
Kyuzo Kawabe
Tatsuyoshi Ehara
Kazuko Iida
Shiro Kida
Shiyuki Tanaka
Keisuke Yamada
Kōji Mitsui
Yoshio Tsuchiya
Shōgo Shimada
Goro Morino
Yasuhisa Tsutsumi
Minoru Takada
Daisuke Katō
Shigeki Ishida
Jun Tazaki
Akihiko Hirata
Sachio Sakai
Nobuo Nakamura
Shin Tatsuoka
Ryuji Kita
Akiji Nomura
Yū Fujiki
Kazuo Kitamura
Fuyuki Murakami
Hyo Kitazawa
Masao Imafuku
Hideyo Amamoto
Shigeru Kōyama
Jun Hamamura
Kaku Oze
Makoto Satō
Akira Kubo
Naoya Kusakawa
Masao Akitsuki
Seiichirō Nomura
Hiroo Kirino
Yasuo Araki
Kenjirō Ishiyama
Keikichi Taki
Susumu Fujita
Hiroshi Tanaka
Yutaka Sada
Tadayoshi Ueda
Nobuyuki Katsube
Yūnosuke Itō
Hiroshi Hasegawa
Hirayoshi Aono
Kiyoshi Kodama
Torahiko Hamada
Tadashi Fukuro
Keiju Kobayashi
Ichirō Nakatani
Tadasaburo Wakayama
Ren Yamamoto
Yutaka Nakayama
Kanta Mori
Tôru Ibuki
Seishirō Kuno
Yasuzō Ogawa
Yoshifumi Tajima
Yūzō Kayama
Michiyo Aratama
Akio Miyabe
Ginzô Sekiguchi
Yû Sekita
Hisashi Igawa
Hiroshi Koizumi
Matsumoto Hakuō I
Tatsuya Nakadai