Battle of the Japan Sea( 1969)

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Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails, and a Russian fleet bears down on the Sea of Japan. Admiral Heihachiro Togo sends his fleet to confront the Russians, with results which stun both nations. Meanwhile, Major Genjiro Akashi makes secret negotiations with the Bolshevik revolutionaries in Russia, negotiations that have repercussions far beyond the conflict at hand.

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Toshirō Mifune
Admiral Heihachiro Togo
Tatsuya Nakadai
Major Genjiro Akashi
Yūzō Kayama
Cmdr. Hirose
Chishū Ryū
General Maresuke Nogi
Susumu Fujita
Uemura
Mitsuko Kusabue
Mrs. Togo
Ryūtarō Tatsumi
General Gonbei Yamamoto
Matsumoto Hakuō I
The Emperor Meiji
Toshio Kurosawa
Pfc. Maeyama
Yōko Tsukasa
Akira Kubo
Matsui
Makoto Satō
Gunnery Chief of Security
Akihiko Hirata
Staff Officer Tsunoda
Yoshio Tsuchiya
Staff Officer Akiyama
Kenji Sahara
Sub-Chief
Yoshibumi Tajima
Ijichi
Hiroshi Koizumi
Kurino
Jun Tazaki
Shimaji Hashiguchi
Takeshi Katō
Chief of Staff Officer Kato
Atsushi Higashiyama
Sugino
Keiji Higashiyama
Dr. Fujimoto
Seiji Matsuyama
Matsu
Jun Funato
Staff Officer Yamaoka
Eijirō Yanagi
Hirofumi Ito
Masao Shimizu
Tozuka
Toru Yasube
Suchi
Gen Shimizu
Narikawa
Ryuji Kita
Kataoka
Kanta Mori
Chief of Staff Officer Ijichi
Toshiyuki Takahashi
Nagata
Shin Takioka
Kaoru Inoue
Takamaru Sasaki
Consultant Kuki
Yoshio Inaba
Chief of Staff Officer Shimamura
Ken Mitsuda
Ariaki Yamagata
Yutaka Sada
Kazuo Suzuki
Wataru Ōmae
Chōtarō Tōgin
Seishirō Kuno
Yutaka Oka
Noriko Honma
Ted Gunther
Shuriakusu
Jacob Shapiro
Informant
Harold Conway
Captain John Campbell
Hans Horneff
Soldier
Osman Yusuf
Russian Officer
Peter Williams
Admiral Nebagotov
Andrew Hughes
Admiral Zinovy Rozhestvensky (General Commander of Baltic Fleet)
Itaru Ose

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A review by watchman

6.5

Written by watchman on Mon Dec 23 2013

Seiji Maruyama’s sanitized docu-drama, retelling the Japanese conduct of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905, which culminated with Japan’s stunning naval victory in the Tsushima Strait. Tsushima’s significance is practically mythic, amounting to a national symbol. From a director who has shown reverence for military values, you might expect a painstakingly conscientious propaganda film. That’s what you get here, complete with diagrams and explanatory narration. The emphasis is about equal between historic personalities and epic battles, both depicted with detachment and restraint, both...