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The Storm of the Pacific

5.6 118 mins War   Drama   1960
TOHO  
Director(s): Shūe Matsubayashi

Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in 1941 and is welcomed with pride in his hometown on his return. As Japan racks up victory after victory in the Pacific War, Kitami is caught up in the emotion of the time and fights courageously for the standard of Japanese honor. But his assuredness of his government's righteousness is shaken after the Japanese navy is defeated in the debacle of Midway.

Casts of The Storm of the Pacific

Yōsuke Natsuki

as Lt. Koji Kitami

Toshirō Mifune

as Admiral Tamon Yamaguchi

Koji Tsuruta

as Lt. Tomonari

Makoto Satō

as Lt. Matsuura

Aiko Mimasu

as Sato

Jun Tazaki

as Captain

Takashi Shimura

as Tosaku

Misa Uehara

as Keiko

Akihiko Hirata

as Fleet Staff Officer

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