Japan's Longest Day (1967)

Original title

日本のいちばん長い日

Directed by

Kihachi Okamoto

Genre

drama film

Country

Japan

Runtime

2h 37m

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 33 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film follows the final 24 hours before Japan's surrender in World War II. It shows military leaders and government officials debating the emperor's decision to end the war while a group of officers plots a violent coup to stop the broadcast.

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What happens

Japan's Longest Day (Japanese: 日本のいちばん長い日, Hepburn: Nippon no ichiban nagai hi) is a 1967 Japanese epic war film directed by Kihachi Okamoto. The subject of the majority of the movie is the period between noon on August 14, 1945, and noon on August 15, 1945, when Emperor Hirohito's decision to surrender to the Allies in World War II was broadcast to the Japanese people, and the attempted coup d'état to prevent that from happening. Film historian Joseph L. Anderson describes the film as "a meticulous reconstruction of the day Japan surrendered and thus ended the Pacific War. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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