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