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What the War Meant

Film20084h 37m

DramaHistoryWarTV Movie
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Director
Shin'ichi Kamoshita
Language
Japanese
Released
2008-12-24
Runtime
4h 37m

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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.

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