Mid-August Commotion
1h 35m

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.
Cast

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

Ken Sudo
Chief Secretary of Cabinet

Michirō Minami
Deputy Chief of Military Command
Kosaku Okano
Secretary Kubo

Rinichi Yamamoto
Colonel Shirai

Fumitake Ōmura
Major Kojima
Tatsuya Kitayama
Major Kaga

Kōji Sekiyama
Major Ishiyama

Akira Katayama
Lt Colonel Kizaki
Akitake Kōno
Commander of Eastern Army Yamanaka
Kappei Matsumoto
Hayashi, Commander of Imperial Guard Division

Ureo Egawa
Senior Retainer Yamaki

Kenji Ushio
Military Police Special High Chief

Yoshi Katō
Director General of Information Bureau

Yayoi Furusato
Lady of the Court Yukiko Kiwakami
