The Battle of Port Arthur

The Battle of Port Arthur
The Battle of Port Arthur
Directed by	Toshio Masuda
Screenplay by	Kazuo Kasahara
Starring	Tatsuya Nakadai; Tetsuro Tamba; Teruhiko Aoi; Masako Natsume; Kenji Niinuma; Masayuki Yuhara; Makoto Satō; Toshiyuki Nagashima; Akio Hasegawa; Shigeru Amachi; Yōko Nogiwa; Kinya Aikawa; Hisaya Morishige; Toshirō Mifune;
Narrated by	Taketoshi Naitō
Music by	Naozumi Yamamoto
Production; company	Toei Company
Distributed by	Toei Company
Release date	August 2, 1980 (Japan);
Running time	185 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

The Battle of Port Arthur (Japanese: 二百三高地, Hepburn: Ni hyaku san kochi) is a 1980 Japanese war film directed by Toshio Masuda.^[1]^[2]^[3] The Japanese title "Ni hyaku san kochi" means Hill 203.^[4] The film depicts the fiercest battles at Hill 203 in the Siege of Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War 1904 - 1905.^[3]^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9]^[10]

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^[3]

23rd Blue Ribbon Awards

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

References

^ "二百三高地とは". kotobank. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
^ "二百三高地". アマゾン. 21 December 2003. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
^ ^a ^b ^c "二百三高地". 映倫. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
^ "二百三高地". Agency for Cultural Affairs日本映画情報. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
^ "二百三高地". 映画. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
^ "公開から40年『二百三高地』丸の内TOEIでデジタル上映決定". シネマトゥディ. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
^ "仲代達矢主演『二百三高地』丸の内TOEIで限定公開へ 40年の時を経て初のデジタル上映". リアルサウンド. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
^ "二百三高地". ザテレビジョン. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
^ "203kochi". Kinema Junpo. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
^ "草刈正雄は丹波哲郎の後継者だ". 文春オンライン. Retrieved August 14, 2021.

External links

The Battle of Port Arthur at IMDb

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[2] "二百三高地". アマゾン. 21 December 2003. Retrieved 19 March 2017.

[Eirin-3] "二百三高地". 映倫. Retrieved 19 March 2017.

[4] "二百三高地". Agency for Cultural Affairs日本映画情報. Retrieved 19 March 2017.

[5] "二百三高地". 映画. Retrieved 19 March 2017.

[6] "公開から40年『二百三高地』丸の内TOEIでデジタル上映決定". シネマトゥディ. Retrieved 29 December 2020.

[7] "仲代達矢主演『二百三高地』丸の内TOEIで限定公開へ 40年の時を経て初のデジタル上映". リアルサウンド. Retrieved 29 December 2020.

[8] "二百三高地". ザテレビジョン. Retrieved 29 December 2020.

[9] "203kochi". Kinema Junpo. Retrieved 11 January 2021.

[10] "草刈正雄は丹波哲郎の後継者だ". 文春オンライン. Retrieved August 14, 2021.

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