The Last War (1961)
Original title: 世界大戦争
The Last War is a 1961 Japanese-language drama movie directed by Shūe Matsubayashi, with a running time of 1h 50m. It stars Frankie Sakai, Akira Takarada and Yuriko Hoshi.
A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superpowers.
Cast
- Frankie Sakai as Mokichi Tamura
- Akira Takarada as Takano
- Yuriko Hoshi as Saeko Tamura
- Nobuko Otowa as Oyoshi Tamura
- Yumi Shirakawa as Sanae
- Chishū Ryū as Ebara
- Jerry Itō as Watkins
- Eijirō Tōno as Captain Umehara
- So Yamamura as Prime Minister Masaki
- Ken Uehara as Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Seizaburō Kawazu as Director of the Mizutani Defense Agency
- Nobuo Nakamura as Chief Cabinet Secretary Fujikawa