Film · Drama, History, TV Movie, War
What the War Meant (2008)
The drama stars Beat Takeshi as General Hideki Tojo, who served as Prime Minister of Japan during World War II and was later executed as a war criminal. The story's theme is said to be a look at how the Pacific War began, focusing mostly on the three month period between the Imperial Conference (Gozen Kaigi) on September 6, 1941, and the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
- Director
- Shin'ichi Kamoshita
- Writers
- Shunsaku Ikehata, Masayasu Hosaka
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese
- Release date
- December 24, 2008
- Original title
- あの戦争は何だったのか 日米開戦と東条英機
Cast
Katsunori TakahashiMasaichi Yoshiwara
Takeshi KitanoHideki Tojo
Yuichiro YamaguchiHumimaro Konoe
Masatô IbuShigetaro Shimada- Tadahiko HiranoHajime Mazuyama
Ren OsugiTeichi Suzuki
Kazunori Mimura
Hiroshi AbeAkiho Ishii
Isao HashizumeShigenori Togo
Morio KazamaKoichi Kito
Katsumi TakahashiAkira Muto
Toru MasuokaOkinori Kaya
Sei HiraizumiTejiro Toyota
Yūki MeguroOsamu Tsukada
Naomasa MusakaOsami Nagano
Toshio KurosawaKojiro Oikawa
Yuichi KimuraKenro Sato
Rei DanKiyoko Ishii
Mansai NomuraEmperor Showa
Toshiyuki NishidaSoho Tokutomi
