Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified positions in the world, during the Russo-Japanese War of (1904 - 1905). In the story dominated the character Lt Takeshi Kogyo (Teruhiko Aoi), teachers, and a reserve officer who became commander of the platoon and later company. At the same time monitors the conduct of the army commander general Nogi (Tatsuya Nakadai), which was commissioned of the emperor Matsuhito (Toshirô Mifune) to the conquest of the fort.

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Cast

Tatsuya Nakadai

Maresuke Nogi

Teruhiko Aoi

Takeshi Koga

Masayuki Yuhara

Kikumatsu Umetani

Makoto Satō

Toshiyuki Nagashima

Yasusuke Nogi

Akio Hasegawa

Yoshio Inaba

Kosuke Ijichi

Jirô Chiba

Jun Funato

Jiro Shirai

Torahiko Hamada

Naoharu Osako

Hiroshi Kondō

Hisanao Oshima

Ichirō Izawa

Harunobu Tomoyasu