Japan's Longest Day
1967 Japanese war film / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the 2015 film whose Japanese title is translated as "Japan's Longest Day", see The Emperor in August.
Japan's Longest Day (Japanese: 日本のいちばん長い日, Hepburn: Nippon no ichiban nagai hi) is a 1967 Japanese epic war film directed by Kihachi Okamoto. The subject of the majority of the movie is the period between noon on August 14, 1945, and noon on August 15, 1945, when Emperor Hirohito's decision to surrender to the Allies in World War II was broadcast to the Japanese people, and the attempted coup d'état to prevent that from happening. Film historian Joseph L. Anderson describes the film as "a meticulous reconstruction of the day Japan surrendered and thus ended the Pacific War.[1]
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Directed by | Kihachi Okamoto |
Screenplay by | Shinobu Hashimoto |
Based on | Japan's Longest Day by Soichi Oya |
Produced by | Tomoyuki Tanaka Sanezumi Fujimoto |
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Narrated by | Tatsuya Nakadai |
Music by | Masaru Sato |
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Running time | 165 minutes |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
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