JAPAN'S LONGEST DAY - THE DRAMATIC TRUE STORY OF THE END OF WORLD WAR 2 [IMPORT]

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• Release Year: 1967
• Genre: Drama, Foreign, War
• Plot: On August 15th, 1945, the Japanese people faced utter destruction. Millions of soldiers and civilians were dead, the rest were starving, and their cities had been reduced to piles of rubble two of them vaporized by atomic bombs. The government was deadlocked; some ministers called for surrender, and others argued that honor demanded a final battle on home soil. To break the impasse, the cabinet took the unprecedented step of asking the Emperor to decide the fate of the nation. ; ; Unable to bear the suffering of his people any longer, and finally given the power to do something about it, the Emperor decreed that Japan would surrender. ; ; Much work remained to be done: the Imperial Rescript had to be composed, the Emperor had to record it, and it had to be broadcast to the nation. And there were many soldiers and civilians who could not accept surrender, and would do anything even commit treason to avoid it. ; ; In a single 24-hour period, the fate of 100 million people would be decided. ; ; This is the true story of August 15th, 1945... Japan's Longest Day. ; ; DVD Features:; Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1; Presented in Anamorphic Widescreen; Japanese with English Subtitles; ; Bonus Material Includes:; Trailers; Image Gallery; Interactive Program Notes;
• Cast: Toshirô Mifune, Sô Yamamura, Chishu Ryu, Seiji Miyaguchi, Takashi Shimura, Toshio Kurosawa, Shogo Shimada, Susumu Fujita, Rokko Toura, Yûnosuke Itô, Daisuke Katô, Etsushi Takahashi, Jun Tazaki, Takao Inoue, Nobuo Nakamura, Kyuzo Kawabe, Tatsuyoshi Ehara, Hirayoshi Aono, Ushio Akashi, Eisei Amamoto, Michiyo Aratama, Yû Fujiki, Tadashi Fukuro, Torahiko Hamada, Jun Hamamura, Seishiro Hisano, Tôru Ibuki, Hisashi Igawa, Masao Imafuku, Shigeki Ishida, Kenjiro Ishiyama, So Iwatani, Ryosuke Kagawa, Takeshi Katô, Hiroyuki Katsube, Yuzo Kayama, Akira Kichoji, Kazuo Kitamura, Ryuji Kita, Hyo Kitazawa, Keiju Kobayashi, Kiyoshi Kodama, Hiroshi Koizumi, Shigeru Kôyama, Akira Kubo, Naoya Kusakawa, Koshiro Matsumoto, Akio Miyabe, Kanta Mori, Goro Morino, Fuyuki Murakami, Tatsuya Nakadai, Tadao Nakamaru, Kan Nihonyanagi, Akiji Nomura, Yasuzo Ogawa, Shin Otomo, Kaku Oze, Yutaka Sada, Sachio Sakai, Kinzo Sekiguchi, Hiroshi Sekita, Junnosuke Suda, Yoshifumi Tajima, Minoru Takada, Toru Takeuchi, Keikichi Taki, Isao Tamagawa, Hiroshi Tanaka, Susumu Tatsuoka, Tadayoshi Ueda, Tadasaburo Wakayama, Haruo Yamada, Yasushi Yamamoto, Kihachi Okamoto
• Director: Kihachi Okamoto
• Runtime: 2:38
• Company: Toho Co.
• Media Format: Movie