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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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)
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Ceremony of Disbanding (1967)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.