
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)