Meiji Tenno portrays the buildup to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political events that led to war, it also shows the era from the story of a farm family in rural Japan that sends their son off to war. As such, it could be considered an anti-war movie, showing how, while war is devised by governments, the people do not really understand what war is, and its combatants often do not know what they are fighting for.
Cast
Kanjūrō Arashi
Emperor Meiji
Kusuo Abe
Hirobumi Itō
Minoru Takada
Aritomo Yamagata
Shin Takemura
Unknown
Susumu Fujita
Kaoru Inoue
Yōji Misaki
Prime Minister Katsura
Ureo Egawa
Navy Minister Yamamoto
Tsunemi Hirose
War Minister Terauchi
Fumio Hara
Foreign Minister Komura
Hiroaki Kurahashi
Finance Minister Sone
Jun Mihara
Unknown
Eiichi Nobuo
Field Marshal Ōyama
Arata Shibata
General Kodama
Koji Hirose
Major General Nagaoka
Akira Nakamura
Admiral Itō
Yōichi Numata
Vice-Admiral Ijuin
Toshio Hosokawa
Unknown
Jun Tazaki
Vice-Admiral Tōgō
Yōnosuke Toba
Vice-Admiral Kamimura
Mikio Namino
Rear Admiral Uryū
Eiji Wakasugi
Rear Admiral Katō
Hiroshi Ogasawara
Unknown
Jūzaburō Akechi
Commander Akiyama
Saburō Sawai
Fleet staff officer
Teruo Wakatsuki
Fleet staff officer
Yukio Kohama
Navy Minister's aide
Tatsuhiro Oka
Commander Arima
Ken Utsui
Lieutenant Commander Hirose
Shinji Arima
Private First Class Sugino
Akira Kato
Captain Narukawa
Satoshi Komori
Captain of the Mikasa
Den Kunikata
First Officer of the Mikasa
Sōzaburō Kikuchi
Squad Leader on the Mikasa
Shin Matsukata
Gunnery Sergeant on the Mikasa
Yōzō Takamura
Gunner on the Mikasa
Tōru Chiba
Navigator on the Mikasa
Fumiya Nakamura
Unknown
Hiroshi Hayashi
General Nogi
Tadao Takashima
Yasusuke Nogi
Shoji Nakayama
Major General Ijichi
Kyoji Murayama
Unknown
Shuntarō Emi
Lieutenant Commander Yamaoka
Hiroshi Izumida
Lieutenant Commander Yoshioka
Yutaka Maki
Unknown
Tomohiko Ôtani
Unknown
Tomisaburō Wakayama
Major Tachibana
Minoru Asuka
Unknown
Hiroshi Ayukawa
Unknown
Yonosuke Akiyama
Unknown
Kanjiro Nakamura
Unknown
Akio Shirakawa
Unknown
Tadashi Ikezuki
Unknown
Yukio Sayama
Unknown
Gen Funabashi
Unknown
Keinosuke Wada
Unknown
Masaru Kodaka
Unknown
Asao Matsumoto
Unknown
Ichirō Ryūzaki
Dr. Tomizu
Masao Takamatsu
Dr. Onozuka
Unpei Yokoyama
Unknown
Shūji Kawabe
Unknown
Kōtarō Sugie
Unknown
Shinsuke Mikimoto
Unknown
Shigeru Amachi
Unknown
Tetsuro Tamba
Rear Admiral Shimamura
