August without Emperor

Movie

Drama

Thriller

Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese government on V-J Day. They aim to abolish the post-war constitution, restore the national army and revive the traditional spirit of Japan. As the conspiracy is exposed, the coup squadrons are wiped out one by one. The remaining squadron takes over a night train bound for Tokyo.

Date: 09/23/1978

Rating: 7.0

Cast: Tsunehiko Watase, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Etsushi Takahashi, Kei Yamamoto, Rentaro Mikuni, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kensaku Morita, Toshiyuki Nagashima, Morio Kazama, Shinichirō Mikami, Isao Hashimoto, Shigeru Kōyama, Mizuho Suzuki, Eiji Okada, Hideji Ōtaki, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Osamu Takizawa, Shin Saburi, Kiwako Taichi, Tetsuro Tamba, Akira Kume, Taketoshi Naitō, Torahiko Hamada, Kappei Matsumoto, Tomo'o Nagai, Eitarō Ozawa, Kuniyasu Atsumi, Yuriko Kono, Zenpei Saga, Junichi Hayakawa, Jun Hamamura, Ken Hatano, Nobuo Tsukamoto, Dennis Farrell, Takashi Kanda, Kinji Omino, Tatsuo Ito, Kiyoto Harada, Nobuyuki Katsube, Tsutomu Isobe, Yasuo Kanechika, Katsumi Itô, Sōnosuke Oda, Toshiyuki Watanabe, Ryûsuke Kita, Jun Kashima, Takuya Shiba, Hideaki Komori, Keiji Tsuchida, Taku Kido, Kôei Yamamoto, Akihiko Hanyû, Tadayuki Okamoto, Hidetoshi Hasegawa, Seiji Shinohara, Shuichi Oki, Nobuo Takagi, Kazuhiro Takasugi, Kayoko Minowa, Matsuko Shiga, Yutaka Nakajima, Jun Izumi, Tamiko Futamura, Mari Okamoto, Yoshiko Okada, Ai Mori, Maki Tachibana

Tsunehiko Watase