What the War Meant (2008)
Drama · War · History · TV Movie
Overview
The drama stars Beat Takeshi as General Hideki Tojo, who served as Prime Minister of Japan during World War II and was later executed as a war criminal. The story's theme is said to be a look at how the Pacific War began, focusing mostly on the three month period between the Imperial Conference (Gozen Kaigi) on September 6, 1941, and the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Cast
- Katsunori Takahashi as Masaichi Yoshiwara
- Takeshi Kitano as Hideki Tojo
- Yuichiro Yamaguchi as Humimaro Konoe
- Masatô Ibu as Shigetaro Shimada
- Tadahiko Hirano as Hajime Mazuyama
- Ren Osugi as Teichi Suzuki
- Kazunori Mimura
- Hiroshi Abe as Akiho Ishii
- Isao Hashizume as Shigenori Togo
- Morio Kazama as Koichi Kito