Film
The Dream of Russia
Japan · Russia- Age rating
- 16+
- Director
- Junya Satō
- Year
- 1992
Sumptuous filming of the journey of a shipwrecked Japanese expedition from the Pacific Ocean across Siberia to the court of Catherine the Great of Russia. A Russo-Japanese co-production of a unique event in history which was the hit of Cannes and other film festivals but did not receive wide distribution despite its huge scope, high production values, and very human story of culture clash.
Top cast
Ken Ogata
Koudayu Daikokuya - captain
Toshiyuki Nishida
Atsuzou - navigator
Takuzō Kawatani
Koichi
Noboru Mitani
Kudzaemon
Hiroyuki Okita
Shinzou
Nozomibun Yoneyama
Isokichi
Tohru Emori
Sadanobu Matsudaira
Marina Vlady
Yekaterina II - empress
Oleg Yankovskiy
Kirill Gustavovich Laksman - academician
Evgeniy Evstigneev
Bush - gardener
Elena Arzhanik
Sofya Ivanovna Bush
Yuriy Solomin
Bezborodko - count
Vitali Solomin
Shelekhov - Irkutsk nobleman
Viktor Stepanov
Yakov Nevidimov
Anastasiya Nemolyaeva
Tatyana
Tatyana Bedova
Anatoliy Skoryakin
Vladimir Eryomin
Vorontsov - count
Directed by
Junya Satō
Written by
Tatsuo Nogami, Junya Satō, Fumio Kōnami
Produced by
Yasuyoshi Tokuma, Tsutomu Sakurai, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Tsutomu Tsuchikawa