Mid-August Commotion (1962)

八月十五日の動乱

A suspense work based on the "Miyagi Incident," an attempted coup d'etat led by some officers working for the Ministry of the Defense and the General Staff of the Konoe Division on the eve of the end of the Pacific War.

Date of release

1962-08-22

Runtime

1h 35m

Director

Tsuneo Kobayashi

Casting

• Koji Tsuruta — Hiroshi Nakajima
• Shinjirō Ehara — Ichiro Kawasaki
• Sonny Chiba — Dr Omori
• Shoji Nakayama — Nobuyuki Komiya, Chamberlain
• Kaneko Iwasaki — Toshiko Nakajima
• Mamoru Ogawa — Jiro Kawasaki
• Kenji Imai — Tsutomu Mihara
• Jun Usami — Prime-Minister
• Isao Yamagata — Minister of War
• Takashi Kanda — Army Minister
• Ryuji Kita — Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Ushio Akashi — Minist of the Interior

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