Director
Kihachi Okamoto
DIRECTOR
Stars (in credits order)
Seiji Miyaguchi
Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo
Rokkô Toura
Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Shunichi Matsumoto
Chishû Ryû
Prime Minister Baron Kantaro Suzuki
Sô Yamamura
Navy Minister Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai
Toshirô Mifune
War Minister General Korechika Anami
Yoshio Kosugi
Minister of Public Welfare Keisuke Okada
Takashi Shimura
Information Bureau Director Hiroshi Shimomura
Etsushi Takahashi
Lt. Colonel Masutaka Ida - Military Affairs Section
Takao Inoue
Lt. Colonel Masahiko Takeshita - Military Affairs Section
Tadao Nakamaru
Lt. Colonel Jiro Shiizaki - Military Affairs Section
Toshio Kurosawa
Major Kenji Hatanaka - Military Affairs Section
Akira Kitchôji
General Yoshijiro Umezu - Chief of the Army General Staff
Haruo Yamada
Admiral Soemu Toyoda - Chief of the Naval General Staff
Ryôsuke Kagawa
Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Tadaatsu Ishiguro
Ushio Akashi
President of the Privy Council Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma
Isao Tamagawa
Colonel Okitsugu Arao - Chief of Military Affairs Section
Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi
Admiral Takijiro Onishi - Vice-Chief of the Naval General Staff
Tôru Takeuchi
Naval Surgeon Kobayashi
Takeshi Katô
Cabinet Chief Secretary Hisatsune Sakomizu
Kyûzô Kawabe
Michio Kihara - Assistant to Sakomizu
Tatsuyoshi Ehara
Nobumasa Kawamoto - Private Secretary to Shimomura
Kazuko Iida
ACTOR
Shiro Kida
Shiyuki Tanaka
Keisuke Yamada
Kôji Mitsui
Old Journalist
Yoshio Tsuchiya
Lt. Colonel Hiroshi Fuha - Eastern District Army Staff Officer
Shôgo Shimada
Lt. General Takeshi Mori - CO 1st Imperial Guards Division
Gorô Morino
Hachiro Ohashi - NHK Chairman
Yasuhisa Tsutsumi
Minoru Takada
Vice Admiral Zenshiro Hoshina - Director of the Naval Affairs Bureau
Daisuke Katô
Kenjiro Yabe - NHK Domestic Bureau Director
Shigeki Ishida
Daitaro Arakawa - NHK Technical Bureau Director
Jun Tazaki
Captain Yasuna Kozono - CO 302nd Air Group
Akihiko Hirata
Commander Sugahara - 302nd Air Group
Sachio Sakai
Atsugi Air Base Crew Chief
Nobuo Nakamura
Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal Marquis Koichi Kido
Shin Tatsuoka
Imperial Household Minister Sotaro Ishiwata
Ryûji Kita
General Shigeru Hasunuma - Chief Military Aide to the Emperor
Akiji Nomura
Major Nakamura
Yû Fujiki
Colonel Seike - Military Aide to the Emperor
Kazuo Kitamura
Tomoo Sato - Cabinet General Affairs Section Chief
Fuyuki Murakami
Minister of Justice Hiromasa Matsuzaka
Hyô Kitazawa
Minister of Finance Hosaku Hirose
Masao Imafuku
Marshal Shunroku Hata
Hideyo Amamoto
Captain Takeo Sasaki
Shigeru Kôyama
Susumu Kato - Imperial Household General Affairs Section
Jun Hamamura
Motohike Kakei - Imperial Household General Affairs Section Chief
Kaku Oze
Lt. General Tadakazu Wakamatsu - Vice-Minister for War
Makoto Satô
Major Hidemasa Koga - 1st Imperial Guards Division
Akira Kubo
Major Sadakichi Ishihara - 1st Imperial Guards Division
Naoya Kusakawa
Shunichi Nagatomo - NHK Engineer
Masao Akitsuki
Seiichirô Nomura
Nadao Kirino
Yasuo Araki
Kenjirô Ishiyama
General Shizuichi Tanaka - C-in-C Eastern District Army
Keikichi Taki
Colonel Tsukamoto - Tanaka's Adjutant
Susumu Fujita
Colonel Toyojiro Haga - CO Imperial Guards 2nd Infantry Regiment
Hiroshi Tanaka
Major Kobayashi
Yutaka Sada
Keisaku Sano
Tadayoshi Ueda
Komonta Sano
Hiroyuki Katsube
Lt. Colonel Michinori Shiraishi - General Mori's Brother-in-Law
Yûnosuke Itô
Major General Toshio Nonaka - CO 27th Air Brigade
Hiroshi Hasegawa
Hirayoshi Aono
Grand Chamberlain Hisanori Fujita
Kiyoshi Kodama
Chamberlain Yasuhide Toda
Torahiko Hamada
Chamberlain Yasuya Mitsui
Tadashi Fukuro
Chamberlain Sukemasa Irie
Keiju Kobayashi
Chamberlain Yoshihiro Tokugawa
Ichirô Nakatani
First Lieutnenant Kuroda
Tadasaburo Wakayama
Colonel Kazuo Mizutani - Chief of Staff to General Mori
Ren Yamamoto
Corporal
Yutaka Nakayama
Kanta Mori
Major General Tatsuhiko Takashima - Chief of Staff Eastern District Army
Tôru Ibuki
Lt. Colonel Toru Itagaki - Eastern District Army Staff Officer
Seishirô Kuno
Battalion Commander
Yasuzô Ogawa
Policeman
Yoshifumi Tajima
Colonel Watanabe - CO Imperial Guards 1st Infantry Regiment
Yûzô Kayama
Morio Tateno - NHK Broadcaster
Michiyo Aratama
Yuriko Hara
Akio Miyabe
Colonel Katsuhiko Inadome - Eastern District Army Staff Officer
Ginzô Sekiguchi
Chamberlain Okabe
Yû Sekita
Staff Kamino
Hisashi Igawa
Kempeitai Lieutenant
Hiroshi Koizumi
Nobukata Wada - NHK Broadcaster
Hakuô Matsumoto
Emperor Hirohito
Tatsuya Nakadai
Self - Narratorvoice
So Iwatani
Marshal Hajime Sugiyamauncredited
Shigeo Katô
Bit partuncredited
Junnosuke Suda
Takeji Takahashiuncredited