Film

What the War Meant 2008

277 min Drama War History TV Movie

The drama stars Beat Takeshi as General Hideki Tojo, who served as Prime Minister of Japan during World War II and was later executed as a war criminal. The story's theme is said to be a look at how the Pacific War began, focusing mostly on the three month period between the Imperial Conference (Gozen Kaigi) on September 6, 1941, and the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

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Cast

  • Katsunori Takahashi as Masaichi Yoshiwara
  • Takeshi Kitano as Hideki Tojo
  • Yuichiro Yamaguchi as Humimaro Konoe
  • Masatô Ibu as Shigetaro Shimada
  • Tadahiko Hirano as Hajime Mazuyama
  • Ren Osugi as Teichi Suzuki

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