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BlueWolf241/Nihonkai Daikaisen
Directed bySeiji Maruyama
Written byToshio Yasumi
Produced byTomoyuki Tanaka
Starring
CinematographyHiroshi Murai
Edited byYoshitami Kuroiwa
Music byMasaru Sato
Production
company
Distributed byToho
Release date
August 1, 1969 (Japan)
Running time
128 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Budget¥360 million
Box officeUS$2,490,711.84

Battle of the Japan Sea (日本海大海戦, Nihonkai Daikaisen, lit. The Great Battle in the Japan Sea) is a 1969 Japanese epic war film directed by [[Seiji Maruyama[[, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. It was produced by Toho in 1969 and it was filmed in CinemaScope (TohoScope) and color. Another film released on the same day is Konto 55go: Jinrui no daijakuten.

Production[change source]

It was the third film in the Toho 8.15 series (東宝8.15シリーズ, Tōhō 8. 15 Shirīzu), but unlike the previous two movies that take place in both World Wars, this film is set in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05. It depicts the beginning of the war between Japan and Russia over the control of rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and the Korean Empire and it depicts the Imperial Japanese Navy and Army fail in their attempts to seize Port Arthur, and the Russian Pacific Fleet bears down on the Sea of Japan. Since Shintoho produced Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War back in 1957, which depicts the Battles of Tsushima and Port Arthur. However, this movie only depicts it in earnest, as it was only briefly depicted in that work. It is said to be the first.

The main filming for Battleship Mikasa occurred at the actual Mikasa ship, which still exists as a memorial museum. With the full cooperation of the Mikasa Preservation Society, the welded parts of the cannon were removed and made movable.

Battle of the Japan Sea was the last film for Eiji Tsuburaya before his death. A dedicated team of 60 artists worked on the 107 miniature ships created for the film. In addition, the miniature of the battleship Mikasa was made up to 13 meters long. Due to the weaker shell power during the Russo-Japanese War in the Pacific War, Freon gas was used to represent the water column in the naval battle scene. The film was theatrically released in Japan by Toho on August 1, 1969, and earned ¥360 million, against a production budget of ¥350 million, during its theatrical run, making it the second-highest-grossing Japanese film of 1969.

Synopsis[change source]

After the Boxer Rebellion was suppressed, the countries that had dispatched troops, Britain, the United States, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, and Austria-Hungary, withdrew their troops out of China, but only Russia kept 50,000 troops in Manchuria and continued to strengthen them by construction the Far Eastern Railway system. Japan's repeated protests were fruitless, and negotiations finally came to a halt.

On January 12, 1904, at a meeting in front of the Imperial Court, Emperor Meiji stated that he would send a telegram directly to the Russian emperor Tsar Nicholas II, stating that ``the severance of diplomatic relations would be a misfortune for both countries, in response to the fact that Japan was leaning toward starting war with Russia. However, there was no response from the Russian government.

Minister of the Navy Yamamoto Gonnohyōe recommended immediate action by the Navy to statesman Itō Hirobumi. On February 5, diplomatic relations between Japan and Russia were severed, and the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet Togo Heihachiro began to capture Port Arthur in preparation for a confrontation with the Baltic Fleet coming from the Baltic Sea.

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