The Battle of Port Arthur
| The Battle of Port Arthur | |
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| Directed by | Toshio Masuda | 
| Screenplay by | Kazuo Kasahara | 
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| Narrated by | Taketoshi Naitō | 
| Music by | Naozumi Yamamoto | 
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| Distributed by | Toei Company | 
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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.
 
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