# Japan's Longest Day (1967)

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**Original title**: *日本のいちばん長い日*
**Runtime**: 157 min
**Genres**: Drama, History, War
**Directed by**: Kihachi Okamoto
**Written by**: Shinobu Hashimoto
**Starring**: Seiji Miyaguchi, Rokkō Toura, Chishū Ryū, So Yamamura, Toshirō Mifune, Yoshio Kosugi

> *The dramatic true story of the end of WWII.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

You sit in a Tokyo war room where maps are already ashes and the radio hums static. The Emperor’s voice cracks over the airwaves asking for peace but the uniformed men in the room refuse to surrender. When junior officers storm the palace with drawn swords the Minister of the Army walks into a garden and puts on his dress whites one last time. Directors later note how silence can outscore any score. The leaves fall like spent papers across the courtyard.

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