Port Arthur (1980)

War
Drama
History

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

Maresuke Nogi
Takeshi Koga
Jiro Shirai
Naoharu Osako
Russian soldier being interrogated
Gentaro Kodama
Yasumasa Fukushima
Teisuke Oki
Shozo Yokokawa
Hisanao Oshima
Toshitane Matsukawa
Shogo Iguchi
Emperor Meiji
Empress Shoken
Narrator (voice)
Harunobu Tomoyasu
Kanemoto Matsumura
Satoru Nakamura
Mitsuharu Tsuchiya
Koreshige Tsunoda
Hyoe Ichinohe
Yozo Teshima
Kikumatsu Umetani
Kumaji Yamaoka
Sentarô Haraguchi
Shukichi Kanematsu
Taizo Ochiai
Yasusuke Nogi
Hirobumi Ito
Kentaro Kaneko
Jutaro Komura
Taro Katsura
Masayoshi Matsukata
Masatake Terauchi
Aritomo Yamagata
Kosuke Ijichi
Gaishi Nagaoka
Tokuya Kamiizumi
Sachi Matsuo
Shizuko Nogi
Tomotsune Komuchi

Crew

Screenplay
Director of Photography
Lighting Technician
Art Direction
Sound Recordist
Special Effects Supervisor
Assistant Director
Sound Effects
Still Photographer
Music Director
Original Music Composer