What the War Meant

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

December 24, 2008

Original language

Japanese

Spoken languages

Japanese

Countries

Japan

Production

TBS

Cast

Katsunori Takahashi,Toru Masuoka,Yūki Meguro,Toshio Kurosawa,Masatô Ibu,Yuichiro Yamaguchi,Rei Dan,Kazunori Mimura,Hiroshi Abe,Yuichi Kimuraand 10 more

Director

Shin'ichi Kamoshita

Writer

Shunsaku Ikehata,Masayasu Hosaka

Producer

Yasuo Yagi

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

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