- Country: Japan
- Genres: Drama, War
- Release: 1971-03-10
- Director: Hiromichi Horikawa
- Writers: Ryôzô Kasahara
- Language: Japanese
- Stars: Keiju Kobayashi , Yûzô Kayama , Toshirō Mifune , Sō Yamamura , Tatsuya Mihashi , Toshio Kurosawa , Goro Tarumi , Kenjirō Ishiyama , Sumio Takatsu , Tōru Abe
- Runtime: 134 min
- Awards: N/A
- AKA: Militaryści (Poland) , 激動の昭和史 軍閥 (Japan) , The Militarists (South Africa) , Turning Point of Showa History: The Militarists , The Militarists , The Militarists (United States of America) , Gekidô no Shôwa-shi: Gunbatsu , The Militarists (Canada)
- Plot:
This tremendous blockbuster hit from 1970, showing the rise to power of Tojo Hideki, is perhaps the most important film to come out of Japan since the 7 Samurai! Interspersed with actual footage dating back to the 1930’s and throughout the Great Pacific War it shows in exciting detail the early successes and ultimate failure of the Japanese war machine. Never before has there been a chronicle of this magnitude about the war in the Pacific Theater of Operations, rivaling Saving Private Ryan with its intense battle scenes. With a brilliant cast featuring Kobayashi Keiju as Tojo, Yamamura So as former Prime Minister Yonai, Mifune Toshiro as Admiral Yamamoto, and Kayama Yuzo as an intrepid newspaper reporter whose articles detailing Japanese losing battles infuriates Tojo to the point of putting his life in danger! The final hour of this film features some of the most disturbing aspects of how the Japanese fought to save their nation and their honor!
- IMDB:tt0065767
Hiromichi Horikawa
Director
Yûzô Kayama
Goro Arai
Keiju Kobayashi
Premier Hideki Tojo
Toshirō Mifune
Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto
Sō Yamamura
Mitsumasa Yonai
Tatsuya Mihashi
Takijiro Onishi
Seiji Miyaguchi
Shinegori Togo
Nobuo Nakamura
Koichi Kido
Masao Shimizu
Saburo Kurusu
Shigeru Kōyama
Fumimaro Konoe
Kenjirō Ishiyama
Hajime Sugiyama
Matagoro Nakamura III
The Emperor
Toshio Hosokawa
Shigetaro Shimada
Tatsuo Matsushita
Kotaro Watanabe
Keizô Sasagawa
Teijiro Toyoda
Susumu Fujita
Osami Nagano
Yasumi Hara
Etsuzo Kurihara
Tōru Abe
Chuichi Nagumo
Jun Funato
Kameto Kuroshima
Yoshifumi Tajima
Seiichi Ito
Nami Tamura
Kimie Arai
Yoko Minakaze
Katsuko Tojo
Ichirô Nakatani
Sano
Goro Tarumi
Takei
Goro Mutsumi
Officer Ishida
Kanta Mori
Koyama