What the War Meant

Name: What the War Meant
Director: Shin'ichi Kamoshita
Genre: Drama, War, History, TV Movie
Released: 2008-12-24
Duration: 4 h 37 min
Rating: 0
Cast: Katsunori Takahashi, Takeshi Kitano, Yuichiro Yamaguchi, Masatô Ibu, Tadahiko Hirano

Directed by Shin'ichi Kamoshita

Drama

War

History TV Movie

20084h 37m

Overview

The drama stars Beat Takeshi as General Hideki Tojo, who served as Prime Minister of Japan during World War II and was later executed as a war criminal. The story's theme is said to be a look at how the Pacific War began, focusing mostly on the three month period between the Imperial Conference (Gozen Kaigi) on September 6, 1941, and the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.