Overview
Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified positions in the world, during the Russo-Japanese War of (1904 - 1905). In the story dominated the character Lt Takeshi Kogyo (Teruhiko Aoi), teachers, and a reserve officer who became commander of the platoon and later company. At the same time monitors the conduct of the army commander general Nogi (Tatsuya Nakadai), which was commissioned of the emperor Matsuhito (Toshirô Mifune) to the conquest of the fort.
Cast
- Tatsuya Nakadai as Maresuke Nogi
- Teruhiko Aoi as Takeshi Koga
- Kenji Niinuma
- Masayuki Yuhara as Kikumatsu Umetani
- Makoto Satō
- Toshiyuki Nagashima as Yasusuke Nogi
- Akio Hasegawa
- Yoshio Inaba as Kosuke Ijichi
- Katsutoshi Atarashi
- Jirô Chiba