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The Battle of Port Arthur (Japanese: 二百三高地, Hepburn: Ni hyaku san kochi) is a 1980 Japanese war film directed by Toshio Masuda.[1][2][3] The Japanese title "Ni hyaku san kochi" means 203 Hill.[4] The film depicts the fiercest battles at 203 Hill in the Siege of Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War 1904 - 1905.[3][5][6][7][8][9][10]

The Battle of Port Arthur
Directed by	Toshio Masuda.
Screenplay by	Kazuo Kasahara
Starring	Tatsuya Nakadai Tetsuro Tamba Teruhiko Aoi Masako Natsume Kenji Niinuma Masayuki Yuhara Makoto Satō Toshiyuki Nagashima Akio Hasegawa Shigeru Amachi Yōko Nogiwa Kinya Aikawa Hisaya Morishige Toshirō Mifune
Narrated by	Taketoshi Naitō
Music by	Naozumi Yamamoto
Production company	Toei Company
Distributed by	Toei Company
Release date	August 2, 1980 (1980-08-02) ( Japan)
Running time	185 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Cast

• Tatsuya Nakadai as Nogi Maresuke
• Tetsuro Tamba as Kodama Gentarō
• Teruhiko Aoi as Koga Takeshi
• Kenji Niinuma as Kinoshita
• Toshiyuki Nagashima as Nogi Yasusuke
• Makoto Satō as Ushiwaka Toratarō
• Isao Tamagawa as Matsumura Kanetomo
• Hiroshi Nawa as Nakamura Satoru
• Yoko Nogiwa as Nogi Sizuko
• Masako Natsume as Matsuo Sachi
• Shigeru Kōyama as Yamagata Aritomo
• Shigeru Amachi as Kaneko Kentarō
• Nobuo Kawai as Komura Jutarō
• Yoshio Inaba as Ijichi Kōsuke
• Jirō Yabuki as Kuji
• Kastutoshi Arata as Ainoda
• Kunio Murai as Oki Teisuke
• Akihiko Hirata as Nagaoka Gaishi
• Go Wakabayashi as Kamiizumi Tokuya
• Kayo Matsuo as Empress Shōken
• Hisaya Morishige as Itō Hirobumi
• Toshirō Mifune as Emperor Meiji

Staff

• Planning: Kiyoshi Koda, Kanji Amao, Hiroko Ota, Tsuneo Seto
• Screenplay: Kazuo Kasahara
• Photography: Masahiko Iimura
• Special Effects Director: Akinori Nakano
• Sound Recordist: Hiroyoshi Sokata
• Lighting: Shigeru Umeya
• Production Designer: Hiroshi Kitagawa
• Chief Assistant Director: Akinori Baba
• Editor: Kiyoaki Saito
• Sound Effects: Ryuzo Iwafuji
• Record: Shigeko Katsuhara
• Mito: Shinosuke Ogata
• Device: Shigeharu Yasawa
• Decoration: Yasuji Igarashi
• Special Effects: Ohira SFX
• Acting office: Mitsuo Yamada
• Cosmetics: Mamoru Inoue, Kinue Suetake
• Beauty: Takako Miyajima
• Costume: Fukusaki Seigo
• Tattoo: Ryoji Kasumi
• Advertiser: Shun Sakamoto, Hachio Yamamoto
• Stills Photography: Mitsuo Kato
• Russian Language Instructor: Mariko Nabeya
• Dialect guidance: Kazuya Takeo, Kenji Isomura

SFX Unit

Photography: Takao Tsurumi Lighting: Masakuni Morimoto Art Director: Yasuyuki Inoue Optical Photography: Takeshi Miyanishi Animation Produced by: Toei Animation Film Processing: Toei Labotech Chief of Operations: Michio Ishikawa

Music Recording Staff

Directed and Conducted by: Naozumi Yamamoto Music: Akihiko Takashima Performed by: New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra Produced by: Free Flight Records, Oz Music Released Thru: Warner Pioneer

Special Thanks

Narrator: Taketoshi Naito

Planning Cooperation

• Ryuzo Sejima, Shiro Hara, Masataka Chihaya

Costume production

• Tokyo costume Cooperation
• Oshima Onsen Hotel
• Fujita Tourism Oshima Kowakien
• Oshima Town Hall
• Oshima Branch of Tokyo
• Mitsui Kinzoku Kogyo Co., Ltd.
• Book Publishing Edition
• Photo Book Russo-Japanese War
• Chuo Nogikai
• Nogi Shrine
• Group Himawari
• Toei Actor Center

Produced in Association with

• Toho Eizo Art

Honors

Japan Academy Film Prize

• Won:Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Tetsuro Tamba[3]

23rd Blue Ribbon Awards

• Won: 1981: Blue Ribbon Awards: Best Actor - Tatsuya Nakadai
• Won: 1981: Blue Ribbon Awards: Best Supporting Actor - Tetsuro Tamba

References

External links

• The Battle of Port Arthur at IMDb

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