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14 June 2003 (Japan) morePlot Keywords:
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1 win & 8 nominations moreUser Comments:
Good history, bad acting moreCast
(Credited cast)| Iain Glen | ... | Richard Sorge | |
| Masahiro Motoki | ... | Hidemi Ozaki | |
| Kippei Shiina | ... | Mitsusada Yoshikawa | |
| Takaya Kamikawa | ... | Tokko T | |
| Toshiya Nagasawa | ... | Miyagi | |
| Riona Hazuki | ... | Hanako Miyake | |
| Koyuki | ... | Yoshiko Yamazaki | |
| Yui Natsukawa | ... | Hideko Ozaki | |
| Takaaki Enoki | ... | Duke Fumimaro Konoye | |
| Hideji Otaki | ... | Duke Kinmochi Sai-onji | |
| Shima Iwashita | ... | Mrs. Konoe | |
| Ulrich Mühe | ... | Eugen Ott | |
| Karen Friesicke | ... | Helma Ott | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Robert Baldwin | |||
| Ralph-Peter Borchert | (as Peter Borchert) | ||
| Michael Christian | |||
| Georg O.P. Eschert | |||
| Alexandra Finder | |||
| Catherine H. Flemming | (as Catherine Flemming) | ||
| Tomonobu Fukui | |||
| Vincent Giry | ... | U.S. M.P. | |
| Max Hopp | |||
| Lena Lessing | |||
| Armin Marewski | |||
| Robert Miko | (as Robert Mika) | ||
| Yurij Rosstalnyj | |||
| Marek Wlodarczyk | |||
| Marian Wolf | |||
| Jarek Wozniak | |||
| Wolfgang S. Zechmayer | (as Wolfgang Zechmayer) | ||
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Anachronisms: The U.S. dollar bill is obviously contemporary, featuring the post-1969 design and the signatures of Mary Ellen Withrow and Lawrence H. Summers (Treasurer and Secretary of the Treasury during the Clinton administration). moreSoundtrack:
Koukyoukyoku dai5ban 'Simplex' moreFAQ
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As the previous reviewer noted, the history is quite interesting. Especially concerning the political intrigues within the Japanese government and the context that lead to things like the 2.26 incident. However the acting in many parts was horrible bad. I don't know if this is because many actors aren't native English speakers so they can't act right when speaking in English or something, but I felt that many parts were just over done and had the feeling that the actors were amateurs. Plus there were way too many pointless scenes mixed in (the still scene of Nijubashi was put in there for countless times). Maybe in a Manga you'd put in those scenes to provide context, but certainly not in film.
Some people might say that this movie white washes Japan's role/behavior in WWII, but I that's not the point of the film. WWII and the 30s were just the backdrop to the story of Sorge and Ozaki, people whose sympathy for the poor had mislead them to risk their own lives and the wellbeing of their families to serve an ultimately futile cause.
The moral I got from this story is, don't give in to temptations to serve some greater cause and throw away the truly important things in life like love and family. Richard Sorge wanted to change the world, all he managed to accomplish was to ruin himself and the lives of the women who loved him, along with Ozaki who trusted him.
Personally I felt really bad for Katya, Hanako, Yoshiko, and Mrs. Ozaki. They really didn't deserve it.