
Anatahan(1953)
From June 1944, twelve Japanese seamen are stranded for seven years on an abandoned and forgotten island called Anatahan.



Yūzō Kayama
Goro Arai

Keiju Kobayashi
Premier Hideki Tojo

Toshirō Mifune
Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto

So Yamamura
Mitsumasa Yonai

Tatsuya Mihashi
Takijiro Onishi

Seiji Miyaguchi
Shinegori Togo

Nobuo Nakamura
Koichi Kido

Masao Shimizu
Saburo Kurusu

Shigeru Kōyama
Fumimaro Konoe

Kenjirō Ishiyama
Hajime Sugiyama
The Militarists is a drama, war film released in 1970. Directed by Hiromichi Horikawa, it stars Yūzō Kayama, Keiju Kobayashi, Toshirō Mifune.
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