August without Emperor/ 皇帝のいない八月 Release date: 1978-09-23 Genres: Drama, Thriller Actors: Tsutomu Isobe, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Toshiyuki Nagashima, Tsunehiko Watase, Shigeru Kōyama, Hideji Ōtaki, Kei Yamamoto, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Eiji Okada, Jun Hamamura, Nobuo Tsukamoto, Torahiko Hamada, Jun Izumi, Shin Saburi, Kensaku Morita, Isao Hashimoto, Takashi Kanda, Tomo'o Nagai, Sōnosuke Oda, Kappei Matsumoto, Zenpei Saga, Shinichirō Mikami, Kuniyasu Atsumi, Rentaro Mikuni, Eitarō Ozawa, Matsuko Shiga, Tetsuro Tamba, Hideaki Komori, Mari Okamoto, Mizuho Suzuki, Ken Hatano, Etsushi Takahashi, Morio Kazama, Yutaka Nakajima, Osamu Takizawa, Akira Kume, Yoshiko Okada, Kiyoto Harada, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Kiwako Taichi, Taketoshi Naitō, Nobuyuki Katsube, Keiji Tsuchida, Maki Tachibana, Jun Kashima, Seiji Shinohara, Ai Mori, Shuichi Oki, Hidetoshi Hasegawa, Taku Kido, Kinji Omino, Nobuo Takagi, Kôei Yamamoto, Kazuhiro Takasugi, Tatsuo Ito, Tadayuki Okamoto, Toshiyuki Watanabe, Dennis Farrell, Yuriko Kono, Junichi Hayakawa, Yasuo Kanechika, Akihiko Hanyû, Kayoko Minowa, Takuya Shiba, Tamiko Futamura, Ryûsuke Kita, Katsumi Itô Runtime: 2 h. 20 min. Score: 7.0/10 Votes: 3 Countries: Japan Companies: Shochiku Overview: 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.
