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.
Directed by Kiyoshi Komori
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Cast
Shigeru Amachi
Lt. Commander Fushimi
Bunta Sugawara
Lieutenant Matsumoto
Kinuko Obata
Misako Akashi
Noriko Kitazawa
Yukie Gorai
Toshio Hosokawa
Lieutenant Ikegami
Keinosuke Wada
Warrant Officer Gorai
Yōichi Numata
Captain Hirano
Shinsuke Mikimoto
Ensign Katsunuma
Jotaro Yuki
Yōji Misaki
Kyōji Kokonoe
Mineichi Koga
Ryuji Wakamiya
Lieutenant Kurosawa
Sōzaburō Kikuchi
Soemu Toyoda
Hiroshi Nakaoka
Warrant Officer Kamichika
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