Narrator

Tatsuya Nakadai

Foreign Minister

Seiji Miyaguchi

Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Shunichi Matsumato

Rokkô Toura

Prime Minister Baron Kantaro Suzuki

Chishū Ryū

Navy Minister Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai

Sô Yamamura

War Minister Anami

Toshiro Mifune

Maj. Hatanaka

Toshio Kurosawa

Minister of Public Welfare Keisuke Okade

Yoshio Kosugi

Information Bureau Director Hiroshi Shimomura

Takashi Shimura

Lt. Colonel Masutaka Ida

Etsushi Takahashi

Lt. Colonel Jiro Shiizaki

Tadao Nakamaru

Lt. Colonel Masahiko Takeshita

Takao Inoue

President of the Privy Council Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma

Ushio Akashi

Cabinet Chief Secretary Hisatsune Sakomizu

Takeshi Kato

Old Journalist

Koji Mitsui

General Yoshijiro Umezu - Chief of the Army General Staff

Akira Kitchôji

Admiral Soemu Toyoda - Chief of the Navy General Staff

Haruo Yamada

Lt. Colonel Hiroshi Fuha - Eastern District Army Staff Officer

Yoshio Tsuchiya

Imperial Commander Mori

Shogo Shimada

Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Tadaatsu Ishiguro

Ryōsuke Kagawa

Yabe of NHK

Daisuke Kato

Col. Kosono

Jun Tazaki

Colonel Okitsugu Arao - Chief of Military Affairs Section

Isao Tamagawa

Admiral Takijiro Onishi - Vice-Chief of the Naval General Staff

Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi

Commander Sugahara - 302nd Air Group

Akihiko Hirata

Lord Kido

Nobuo Nakamura

Naval Surgeon Kobayashi

Tōru Takeuchi

Eisei Amamoto

Michio Kihara - Assistant to Sakomizu

Kyuzo Kawabe

Major Hidemasa Koga - 1st Imperial Guards Division

Makoto Sato

Gen. Tanaka

Kenjiro Ishiyama

Nobumasa Kawamoto - Private Secretary to Shimomura

Tatsuyoshi Ehara

Col. Haga

Susumu Fujita

General

Kazuko Iida

Maj. Gen. Nonaka

Yunosuke Ito

General

Shiro Kida

Chamberlain Tokugawa

Keiju Kobayashi

General

Shiyuki Tanaka

Ichiro Nakaya

Hachiro Ohashi - NHK Chairman

Goro Morino

Journalist

Keisuke Yamada

Emperor Hirohito

Koshiro Matsumoto*

Daitaro Arakawa - NHK Technical Bureau Director

Shigeki Ishida

Yuriko Hara

Michiyo Aratama

Tateno of NHK

Yuzo Kayama

Insurgent Commander

Yasuhisa Tsutsumi

Imperial Household Minister Sotaro Ishiwata (as Susumu Tatsuoka)

Shin Tatsuoka

Vice Admiral Zenshiro Hoshina - Dir. of the Naval Affairs Bureau

Minoru Takada

General Shigeru Hasunuma - Chief Military Aide to the Emperor

Ryuji Kita

Colonel Seike - Military Aide to the Emperor

Yu Fujiki

Tomoo Sato - Cabinet General Affairs Section Chief

Kazuo Kitamura

Minister of Justice Hiromasa Matsuzaka

Fuyuki Murakami

Minister of Finance Hosaku Hirose

Hyo Kitazawa

Atsugi Air Base Crew Chief

Sachio Sakai

So Iwaya

Marshal Shunroku Hata

Masao Imafuku

Susumu Kato - Imperial Household General Affairs Section

Shigeru Kohyama

Major Nakamura

Akiji Nomura

Motohike Kakei - Imperial Household General Affairs Chief

Jun Hamamura

Itaru Ose

Major Sadakichi Ishihara - 1st Imperial Guards Division

Akira Kubo

Shunichi Nagatomo - NHK Engineer

Naoya Kusakawa

Keiichi Taki

Captain Takeo Sasaki

Hideyo Amamoto

Major Kobayashi

Hiroshi Tanaka

Keisaku Sano

Yutaka Sada

Lt. General Tadakazu Wakamatsu - Vice-Minister for War

Kaku Oze

Chuko Ueda

Lt. Colonel Michinori Shiraishi - General Mori's Brother-in-Law

Nobuyuki Katsube

Grand Chamberlain Hisanori Fujita

Hirayoshi Aono

Chamberlain Yasuhide Toda

Kiyoshi Kodama

Chamberlain Yasuya Mitsui

Torahiko Hamada

Chamberlain Sukemasa Irie

Tadashi Fukuro

Decapitated Man

Yasuo Araki

First Lieutnenant Kuroda

Ichirô Nakatani

Daisuke Wakamiya

Corporal

Ren Yamamoto

Maj. General Tatsuhiko Takashima - Chief of Staff E. Dist. Army

Kanta Mori

Lt. Colonel Toru Itagaki - Eastern District Army Staff Officer

Toru Ibuki

Komonta Sano

Tadayoshi Ueda

Battalion Commander

Seishiro Kuno

Policeman

Yasuzô Ogawa

Guard Supporting the Insurgency

Hiroshi Hasegawa

Colonel Watanabe - CO Imperial Guards 1st Infantry Regiment

Yoshifumi Tajima

Colonel Katsuhiko Inadome - Eastern District Army Staff Officer

Akio Miyabe

Chamberlain Okabe

Ginzô Sekiguchi

Staff Kamino

Hiroshi Sekita

Kempeitai Lieutenant

Hisashi Igawa

Junnosuke Suda

Corporal

Yutaka Nakayama

Nobukata Wada - NHK Broadcaster

Hiroshi Koizumi

Shin Otomo

Hakuo Matsumoto I

Emperor Hirohito

Matsumoto Hakuō I