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The Militarists (激動の昭和史 軍閥, Gekido no Showa shi-Gunbatsu) is a 1970 Japanese film directed by Hiromichi Horikawa.[1][2][3]

The Militarists
Directed by	Hiromichi Horikawa
Screenplay by	Ryozo Kasahara[1]
Starring	Keiju Kobayashi Yūzō Kayama Sō Yamamura Toshio Kurosawa Tatsuya Mihashi Toshiro Mifune
Narrated by	Kiyoshi Kobayashi
Cinematography	Kazuo Yamada [1]
Music by	Riichiro Manabe[1]
Production company	Toho[1]
Distributed by	Toho
Release date	11 August 1970 (1970-08-11) (Japan)
Running time	133 minutes[1]
Country	Japan

Release

The Militarists had a roadshow release in Japan on 11 August 1970 where it was distributed by Toho.[1] It received general release 12 September 1970 in Japan.[4] The film was Toho's highest grossing release of the year and the second highest grossing Japanese film production in 1970.[1]

The film was released in the United States as Gunbatsu (The Militarists) with English subtitles by Toho International.[1] It was released 10 March 1971.[1]

Cast

• Keijyu Kobayashi as Hideki Tōjō
• Yūzō Kayama as Gorō Arai
• Tatsuya Mihashi as Takijirō Ōnishi
• Seiji Miyaguchi as Shigenori Tōgō
• Akira Kubo as Takami
• Ichirō Nakatani as Sano
• Yoshio Tsuchiya as Okabe
• Gorō Mutsumi as Ishida
• Akihiko Hirata as Tomita
• Ryūji Kita as Koshirō Oikawa
• Sachio Sakai as Kitamura
• Kazuo Kitamura as Yamanaka
• Takashi Shimura as Takeda
• Jūkei Fujioka as Nakata
• Shin Kishida as Takakura
• Toshio Kurosawa as Shimagaki
• Masao Shimizu as Saburō Kurusu
• Susumu Fujita as Osami Nagano
• Sō Yamamura (special appearance) as Mitsumasa Yonai
• Toshirō Mifune as Isoroku Yamamoto

See also

• List of Japanese films of 1970

References

Footnotes

Sources

External links

• The Militarists at IMDb

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