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Japan's Longest Day Japan's Longest Day DVD On August 15th, 1945, the Japanese people faced utter destruction. Millions of soldiers and civilians were dead, the rest were starving, and their cities had been reduced to piles rubble -- two of them vaporized by atomic bombs. The government was deadlocked; some ministers called for surrender, and others argued that honor demanded a final battle on home soil. To break the impasse, the cabinet took the unprecedented step of asking the Emperor to decide the fate of the nation. Kihachi Okamoto, Shinobu Hashimoto, Soichi Oya, Tatsuya Nakadai, Toshiro Mifune, Yuzo Kayama |
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