Film
Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War
Japan- Director
- Kunio Watanabe
- Year
- 1957
Meiji Tenno portrays the buildup to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political events that led to war, it also shows the era from the story of a farm family in rural Japan that sends their son off to war. As such, it could be considered an anti-war movie, showing how, while war is devised by governments, the people do not really understand what war is, and its combatants often do not know what they are fighting for.
Top cast
Kanjūrō Arashi
Emperor Meiji
Kusuo Abe
Hirobumi Itō
Minoru Takada
Aritomo Yamagata
Shin Takemura
Susumu Fujita
Kaoru Inoue
Yōji Misaki
Prime Minister Katsura
Ureo Egawa
Navy Minister Yamamoto
Tsunemi Hirose
War Minister Terauchi
Fumio Hara
Foreign Minister Komura
Hiroaki Kurahashi
Finance Minister Sone
Jun Mihara
Eiichi Nobuo
Field Marshal Ōyama
Arata Shibata
General Kodama
Koji Hirose
Major General Nagaoka
Akira Nakamura
Admiral Itō
Yōichi Numata
Vice-Admiral Ijuin
Toshio Hosokawa
Jun Tazaki
Vice-Admiral Tōgō
Directed by
Kunio Watanabe
Written by
Kunio Watanabe
