The Battle of Port Arthur

The Battle of Port Arthur is a 1980 Japanese war film directed by Toshio Masuda. The Japanese title "Ni hyaku san kochi" means Hill 203. The film depicts the fiercest battles at Hill 203 in the Siege of Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War 1904 - 1905.

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

23rd Blue Ribbon Awards

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