The Militarists
The second film in Toho's series on the military history of the Showa era, Hiromichi Horikawa's war drama offers a look at the career of controversial politician Hideki Tojo and the strained relationships between Japan's government, military, and the media.
Director Hiromichi Horikawa
Cast
Gen Shimizu
Yoshizawa
Kazuo Kitamura
Yamanaka
Jūkei Fujioka
Nakata
Susumu Fujita
Osami Nagano
Shin Kishida
Takakura
Kotaro Tomita
Tomimoto
Yūzō Kayama
Goro Arai
Yoko Minakaze
Katsuko Tojo
Keiichirō Katsumoto
Minister (Konoe Cabinet)
Nobuo Nakamura
Koichi Kido
Kenjirō Ishiyama
Hajime Sugiyama
Tōru Abe
Chuichi Nagumo
Kenji Sahara
Okamoto
Takashi Shimura
Takeda
Tatsuya Mihashi
Takijiro Onishi
Yasumi Hara
Etsuzo Kurihara
Nami Tamura
Kimie Arai
Takamaru Sasaki
Reijiro Wakatsuki
Shōichi Hirose
Soldier
Akira Katayama
Minister (uncredited)
Kazuo Suzuki
Petty Officer
Toshio Kurosawa
Shimagaki
So Yamamura
Mitsumasa Yonai
Ichirō Nakatani
Sano
Gorō Tarumi
Takei
Minori Terada
Fujii
Ushio Akashi
Korekiyo Takahashi
Jun Funato
Kameto Kuroshima
Tatsuyoshi Ehara
Mikuni
Keiju Kobayashi
Premier Hideki Tojo
Hideyo Amamoto
Fuyuki
Takao Itō
Nakamura
Hiroshi Tanaka
Yuki
Jotaro Togami
Minister (Konoe-Tojo Cabinet)
Seiji Miyaguchi
Shinegori Togo
Akihiko Hirata
Tomita
Shigeru Kōyama
Fumimaro Konoe
Ken Hatano
Nakagawa
Rinsaku Ogata
Fukuyama
Akira Kubo
Takami
Kiyoshi Kobayashi
Narrator (voice)
Masao Shimizu
Saburo Kurusu
Gorō Mutsumi
Officer Ishida
Chōtarō Tōgin
Shoji
Wataru Ōmae
Nagato
Sachio Sakai
Kitamura
Yoshibumi Tajima
Seiichi Ito
Isao Tamagawa
Tsukamoto
Yoshirō Aoki
Tsuji
Yoshio Tsuchiya
Okawa
Yutaka Sada
Goto
Toshirō Mifune
Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto
Zenji Yamada
Minister (Tojo Cabinet)