Mid-August Commotion (1962)
Original title: 八月十五日の動乱
Mid-August Commotion is a 1962 Japanese-language movie directed by Tsuneo Kobayashi, with a running time of 1h 35m. It stars Koji Tsuruta, Shinjirō Ehara and Sonny Chiba.
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.
Cast
- Koji Tsuruta as Hiroshi Nakajima
- Shinjirō Ehara as Ichiro Kawasaki
- Sonny Chiba as Dr Omori
- Shoji Nakayama as Nobuyuki Komiya, Chamberlain
- Kaneko Iwasaki as Toshiko Nakajima
- Mamoru Ogawa as Jiro Kawasaki
- Kenji Imai as Tsutomu Mihara
- Jun Usami as Prime-Minister
- Isao Yamagata as Minister of War
- Takashi Kanda as Army Minister
- Ryuji Kita as Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Ushio Akashi as Minist of the Interior