Directed by
| Masaki Kobayashi | ||
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
| Shun Inagaki | ... | (story) |
| Masaki Kobayashi | ... | (writer) |
| Kiyoshi Ogasawara | ... | (writer) |
Cast (in credits order)
| Kei Satô | ... | Narrator (voice) | |
| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
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Sadao Araki | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Henri Bernard | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Frederick Borgerhoff-Mulder | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Neville Chamberlain | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Kai-Shek Chiang | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Winston Churchill | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Myron C. Cramer | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Kenji Doihara | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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George Furness | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Mohandas K. Gandhi | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Sergei Golunsky | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Kingorô Hashimoto | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Shunroku Hata | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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John P. Higgins | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Kiichirô Hiranuma | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Hirohito | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Kôki Hirota | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Adolf Hitler | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Naoki Hoshino | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Seishirô Itagaki | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Delfin Jaranilla | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Okinori Kaya | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Joseph B. Keenan | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Kôichi Kido | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Il-Sung Kim | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Heitarô Kimura | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Kuniaki Koiso | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Pedro Lopez | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Douglas MacArthur | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Alan James Mansfield | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Zedong Mao | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Iwane Matsui | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Yôsuke Matsuoka | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Edward Stuart McDougall | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Ju-ao Mei | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Govinda Menon | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Jirô Minami | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Benito Mussolini | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Akira Mutô | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Osami Nagano | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Henry Nolan | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Erima Harvey Northcroft | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Takazumi Oka | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Robert Oneto | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Radhabinod Pal | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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William Donald Patrick | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Puyi | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Ronald Henry Quilliam | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Syngman Rhee | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Bert Röling | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Kenryô Satô | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Mamoru Shigemitsu | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Shigetarô Shimada | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Toshio Shiratori | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Joseph Stalin | ... | Self (archive footage) (as Iosif Stalin) | |
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Arthur Strettell Comyns Carr | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Teiichi Suzuki | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Soemu Toyoda | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Harry S. Truman | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Shigenori Tôgô | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Hideki Tôjô | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Yoshijirô Umezu | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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William Flood Webb | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Zhejun Xiang | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Ivan Mikhyevich Zaryanov | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Shûmei Ôkawa | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Hiroshi Ôshima | ... | Self (archive footage) |
Produced by
| Masaya Araki | ... | producer |
| Shozo Sugiyama | ... | executive producer |
| Ryu Yasutake | ... | producer |
Music by
| Tôru Takemitsu | ||
Editing by
| Keiichi Uraoka | ||
Sound Department
| Akira Nakano | ... | sound recordist |