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.
as Maresuke Nogi
as Takeshi Koga
as Kikumatsu Umetani
as Yasusuke Nogi
as Kosuke Ijichi
as Jiro Shirai
as Naoharu Osako
as Hisanao Oshima
as Harunobu Tomoyasu
as Kanemoto Matsumura
as Satoru Nakamura
as Mitsuharu Tsuchiya
as Jiro Oba
as Koreshige Tsunoda
as Sergeant
as Hyoe Ichinohe
as Yozo Teshima
as Kumaji Yamaoka
as Sentarô Haraguchi
as Shukichi Kanematsu
as Taizo Ochiai
as Hirobumi Ito
as Kentaro Kaneko
as Iwao Oyama
as Jutaro Komura
as Taro Katsura
as Masayoshi Matsukata
as Masatake Terauchi
as Aritomo Yamagata
as Gaishi Nagaoka
as Tokuya Kamiizumi
as Tokuzo Igata
as Sachi Matsuo
as Shizuko Nogi
as Tomotsune Komuchi
as Russian soldier being interrogated
as Gentaro Kodama
as Yasumasa Fukushima
as Teisuke Oki
as Shozo Yokokawa
as Toshitane Matsukawa
as Shogo Iguchi
as Emperor Meiji
as Empress Shoken
as Narrator (voice)
