The Battle of Port Arthur

Narrated byTaketoshi NaitōMusic byNaozumi YamamotoDistributed byToei Company185 minutesCountryJapanLanguageJapanese

The Battle of Port Arthur (Japanese: 二百三高地, Hepburn: Ni hyaku san kochi) is a 1980 Japanese war film directed by Toshio Masuda.^[1][2][3] The Japanese title "Ni hyaku san kochi" means Hill 203.^[4] The film depicts the fiercest battles at Hill 203 in the Siege of Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War 1904 - 1905.^{[3][5][6][7][8][9][10]}

Cast

• Tatsuya Nakadai as General Baron Nogi Maresuke
• Tetsuro Tamba as General Baron Kodama Gentarō
• Teruhiko Aoi as Koga Takeshi
• Kenji Niinuma as Kinoshita
• Toshiyuki Nagashima as Nogi Yasusuke
• Makoto Satō as Ushiwaka Toratarō
• Isao Tamagawa as Matsumura Kanetomo
• Hiroshi Nawa as Lieutenant General Nakamura Satoru
• Yoko Nogiwa as Nogi Shizuko
• Masako Natsume as Matsuo Sachi
• Shigeru Kōyama as Marshal Marquess Yamagata Aritomo
• Shigeru Amachi as Baron Kaneko Kentarō
• Nobuo Kawai as Baron Komura Jutarō
• Yoshio Inaba as Major General Ijichi Kōsuke
• Jirō Yabuki as Kuji
• Kastutoshi Arata as Ainoda
• Kunio Murai as Oki Teisuke
• Akihiko Hirata as Major General Nagaoka Gaishi
• Go Wakabayashi as Kamiizumi Tokuya
• Kayo Matsuo as Empress Shōken
• Hisaya Morishige as Marquess Itō Hirobumi, President of the Privy Council of Japan
• Toshirō Mifune as Emperor Meiji

Staff

• Planning: Kiyoshi Koda, Kanji Amao, Hiroko Ota, Tsuneo Seto
• Screenplay: Kazuo Kasahara
• Photography: Masahiko Iimura
• Special Effects Director: Akinori Nakano
• Sound Recordist: Hiroyoshi Sokata
• Lighting: Shigeru Umeya
• Production Designer: Hiroshi Kitagawa
• Chief Assistant Director: Akinori Baba
• Editor: Kiyoaki Saito
• Sound Effects: Ryuzo Iwafuji
• Record: Shigeko Katsuhara
• Mito: Shinosuke Ogata
• Device: Shigeharu Yasawa
• Decoration: Yasuji Igarashi
• Special Effects: Ohira SFX
• Acting office: Mitsuo Yamada
• Cosmetics: Mamoru Inoue, Kinue Suetake
• Beauty: Takako Miyajima
• Costume: Fukusaki Seigo
• Tattoo: Ryoji Kasumi
• Advertiser: Shun Sakamoto, Hachio Yamamoto
• Stills Photography: Mitsuo Kato
• Russian Language Instructor: Mariko Nabeya
• Dialect guidance: Kazuya Takeo, Kenji Isomura

SFX Unit

Photography: Takao Tsurumi Lighting: Masakuni Morimoto Art Director: Yasuyuki Inoue Optical Photography: Takeshi Miyanishi Animation Produced by: Toei Animation Film Processing: Toei Labotech Chief of Operations: Michio Ishikawa

Music Recording Staff

Directed and Conducted by: Naozumi Yamamoto Music: Akihiko Takashima Performed by: New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra Produced by: Free Flight Records, Oz Music Released Thru: Warner Pioneer

Special Thanks

Narrator: Taketoshi Naito

Planning Cooperation

• Ryuzo Sejima, Shiro Hara, Masataka Chihaya

Costume production

• Tokyo costume Cooperation
• Oshima Onsen Hotel
• Fujita Tourism Oshima Kowakien
• Oshima Town Hall
• Oshima Branch of Tokyo
• Mitsui Kinzoku Kogyo Co., Ltd.
• Book Publishing Edition
• Photo Book Russo-Japanese War
• Chuo Nogikai
• Nogi Shrine
• Group Himawari
• Toei Actor Center

Produced in Association with

• Toho Eizo Art

Honors

Japan Academy Film Prize

• Won:Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Tetsuro Tamba^[3]

23rd Blue Ribbon Awards

• Won: 1981: Blue Ribbon Awards: Best Actor - Tatsuya Nakadai
• Won: 1981: Blue Ribbon Awards: Best Supporting Actor - Tetsuro Tamba

References

External links

• The Battle of Port Arthur at IMDb