Spy Sorge


Spy Sorge is a 2003 Japanese film co-written and directed by Masahiro Shinoda, about the World War II-era Soviet spy Richard Sorge. It stars Scottish actor Iain Glen in the title role. Shinoda intended the film, a long and lavish production, to be his final feature. True to his word, the director died 22 years later without having directed another film.
Spy Sorge achieved only modest critical and commercial success. Despite this, the film received multiple nominations at the 2004 Japan Academy Awards.

Plot

The film presents the life of Richard Sorge, a German spy for the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Soviet Army in Japan. Sorge and his contact Hotsumi Ozaki are arrested by the Tokubetsu Kōtō Keisatsu in Tokyo, and Sorge recounts the main events in flashbacks.

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