Japan's Longest Day

For the 2015 film whose Japanese title is translated as "Japan's Longest Day", see The Emperor in August.
Japan's Longest Day
Theatrical release poster
Directed byKihachi Okamoto
Screenplay byShinobu Hashimoto
Based onJapan's Longest Day
by Soichi Oya
Produced byTomoyuki Tanaka
Sanezumi Fujimoto
Starring
Narrated byTatsuya Nakadai
Music byMasaru Sato
Production
company
Release date
  • August 12, 1967 (1967-08-12) (Japan)
Running time
165 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Japan's Longest Day (Japanese: 日本のいちばん長い日, Hepburn: Nippon no ichiban nagai hi) is a 1967 Japanese epic war film directed by Kihachi Okamoto. The subject of the majority of the movie is the period between noon on August 14, 1945, and noon on August 15, 1945, when Emperor Hirohito's decision to surrender to the Allies in World War II was broadcast to the Japanese people, and the attempted coup d'état to prevent that from happening. Film historian Joseph L. Anderson describes the film as "a meticulous reconstruction of the day Japan surrendered and thus ended the Pacific War.[1]

  1. ^ Anderson, J.L. (1982). The Japanese Film: Art and Industry. Princeton University Press. p. 471. ISBN 9780691007922.