Film
What the War Meant
2008Directed by Shin'ichi Kamoshita
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- Released
- Runtime
- 4h 37m
About What the War Meant
- Drama
- War
- History
- TV Movie
Synopsis
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.
- Director
- Shin'ichi Kamoshita
- Writers
- Shunsaku Ikehata
- Masayasu Hosaka
- Original title
- あの戦争は何だったのか 日米開戦と東条英機
