August Without Emperor

7.3

Japan

Drama Thriller

140 min

1978

Tsunehiko Watase Torahiko Hamada Tomo'o Nagai Eitarō Ozawa Zenpei Saga Jun Hamamura Ken Hatano Nobuo Tsukamoto Takashi Kanda Nobuyuki Katsube Tsutomu Isobe Sōnosuke Oda Taku Kido Tadayuki Okamoto Nobuo Takagi Yutaka Nakajima Jun Izumi Mari Okamoto Taketoshi Naitō Tetsuro Tamba Kiwako Taichi Sayuri Yoshinaga Etsushi Takahashi Kei Yamamoto Rentaro Mikuni Tsutomu Yamazaki Kensaku Morita Toshiyuki Nagashima Morio Kazama Shinichirō Mikami Isao Hashimoto Shigeru Kōyama Mizuho Suzuki Eiji Okada Hideji Ōtaki Kiyoshi Atsumi Osamu Takizawa Shin Saburi Yoshiko Okada

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.