

What the War Meant
Film20084h 37m
Where to watch
Details
- Director
- Shin'ichi Kamoshita
- Language
- Japanese
- Released
- 2008-12-24
- Runtime
- 4h 37m
Community score
Confidence
Rating weighted by how many people voted
Actor Hub
Scene work for this title — private technique journals.
Open journal →The story
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.
The room
Ask. Discuss. Find the next one.
Stay with What the War Meant: ask what it is actually doing, talk it through, then follow the traits that made it land.
Ask
Talk it through
Grounded in the film — and in your map, when you have one.
Try asking
3 free asks left without an account.
Actor journal
Private scene work lives in Actor Hub — not on this title page.
Characters
Star up to 5 favourites in What the War Meant. Rank them if you want — picks feed Cinematic DNA; journals stay private.











