Mid-August Commotion

Synopsis

A suspense work based on the "Miyagi Incident," an attempted coup d'etat led by some officers working for the Ministry of the Defense and the General Staff of the Konoe Division on the eve of the end of the Pacific War.

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Key crew

• Tsuneo KobayashiDirector
• Hajime TakaiwaScreenplay
• Chūji KinoshitaOriginal Music Composer

Cast

• Koji TsurutaHiroshi Nakajima
• Shinjirō EharaIchiro Kawasaki
• Sonny ChibaDr Omori
• Shoji NakayamaNobuyuki Komiya, Chamberlain
• Kaneko IwasakiToshiko Nakajima
• Mamoru OgawaJiro Kawasaki
• Kenji ImaiTsutomu Mihara
• Jun UsamiPrime-Minister
• Isao YamagataMinister of War
• Takashi KandaArmy Minister
• Ryuji KitaMinister of Foreign Affairs
• Ushio AkashiMinist of the Interior

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