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Enigmatic Explosion of the Battleship Mutsu

0.0 90 mins War   1960
Shintoho Company  
Director(s): Kiyoshi Komori

During the naval battle of Midway in WWII, the battleship Mutsu was in its home port in Japan. The ship's officers and crew were frustrated at not being able to take part in the fighting. They had been held back by orders from the Naval Ministry, but there was also a plot by saboteurs, who were trying to prevent the sailing of the Mutsu. Director Komori developed a suspenseful plot by including a fictional adaptation of the Russian spy Richard Sorge, who had been captured in Japan and subsequently executed. Komori brings a fictional Russian spy to the screen by portraying him as a military attaché at the German embassy. As Germany was an ally of Japan in WWII, a secret agent being a mole in the German embassy is a perfect cover. The interaction of the saboteurs and the officers and crew of the Mutsu make an exciting story.

Casts of Enigmatic Explosion of the Battleship Mutsu

Shigeru Amachi

as Lt. Commander Fushimi

Bunta Sugawara

as Lieutenant Matsumoto

Kinuko Obata

as Misako Akashi

Noriko Kitazawa

as Yukie Gorai

Toshio Hosokawa

as Lieutenant Ikegami

Keinosuke Wada

as Warrant Officer Gorai

Yōichi Numata

as Captain Hirano

Shinsuke Mikimoto

as Ensign Katsunuma

Kyōji Kokonoe

as Mineichi Koga

Ryuji Wakamiya

as Lieutenant Kurosawa

Sōzaburō Kikuchi

as Soemu Toyoda

Hiroshi Nakaoka

as Warrant Officer Kamichika

Reiko Seto

as Akiko

Kanjūrō Arashi

as Shigetaro Shimada

Ken Utsui

as Lieutenant Kaneda

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