Full Cast & Crew

Director

Assistant Director

Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo

Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Shunichi Matsumato

Prime Minister Baron Kantaro Suzuki

Navy Minister Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai

War Minister General Korechika Anami

Minister of Public Welfare Keisuke Okade

Information Bureau Director Hiroshi Shimomura

Lt. Colonel Masutaka Ida

Lt. Colonel Masahiko Takeshita

Lt. Colonel Jiro Shiizaki

Major Kenji Hatanaka - Military Affairs Section

General Yoshijiro Umezu - Chief of the Army General Staff

Admiral Soemu Toyoda - Chief of the Navy General Staff

Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Tadaatsu Ishiguro

President of the Privy Council Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma

Colonel Okitsugu Arao - Chief of Military Affairs Section

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

Naval Surgeon Kobayashi

Cabinet Chief Secretary Hisatsune Sakomizu

Michio Kihara - Assistant to Sakomizu

Nobumasa Kawamoto - Private Secretary to Shimomura

General

General

General

Journalist

Old Journalist

Lt. Colonel Hiroshi Fuha - Eastern District Army Staff Officer

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

Hachiro Ohashi - NHK Chairman

Insurgent Commander

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

Kenjiro Yabe - NHK Domestic Bureau Director

Daitaro Arakawa - NHK Technical Bureau Director

Captain Yasuna Kozono - CO 302nd Air Group

Commander Sugahara - 302nd Air Group

Atsugi Air Base Crew Chief

Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal Marquis Koichi Kido

Imperial Household Minister Sotaro Ishiwata (as Susumu Tatsuoka)

General Shigeru Hasunuma - Chief Military Aide to the Emperor

Major Nakamura

Colonel Seike - Military Aide to the Emperor

Tomoo Sato - Cabinet General Affairs Section Chief

Minister of Justice Hiromasa Matsuzaka

Minister of Finance Hosaku Hirose

Marshal Shunroku Hata

Captain Takeo Sasaki

Susumu Kato - Imperial Household General Affairs Section

Motohike Kakei - Imperial Household General Affairs Chief

Lt. General Tadakazu Wakamatsu - Vice-Minister for War

Major Hidemasa Koga - 1st Imperial Guards Division

Major Sadakichi Ishihara - 1st Imperial Guards Division

Shunichi Nagatomo - NHK Engineer

Kamikaze

Kamikaze

Kamikaze

Decapitated Man

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

Colonel Tsukamoto - Tanaka's Adjutant

Colonel Toyojiro Haga - CO Imperial Guards 2nd Infantry Regiment

Major Kobayashi

Keisaku Sano

Komonta Sano

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

Major General Toshio Nonaka - CO 27th Air Brigade

Guard Supporting the Insurgency

Grand Chamberlain Hisanori Fujita

Chamberlain Yasuhide Toda

Chamberlain Yasuya Mitsui

Chamberlain Sukemasa Irie

Chamberlain Yoshihiro Tokugawa

First Lieutnenant Kuroda

Colonel Kazuo Mizutani - Chief of Staff to General Mori

Corporal

Corporal

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

Lt. Colonel Toru Itagaki - Eastern District Army Staff Officer

Battalion Commander

Policeman

Colonel Watanabe - CO Imperial Guards 1st Infantry Regiment

Morio Tateno - NHK Broadcaster

Yuriko Hara

Colonel Katsuhiko Inadome - Eastern District Army Staff Officer

Chamberlain Okabe

Staff Kamino

Kempeitai Lieutenant

Nobukata Wada - NHK Broadcaster

Emperor Hirohito

Narrator (voice)