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A freestyle biopic of Ikki Kita, the ultranationalist intellectual whose ideas inspired the failed military coup in 1936.
Top billed cast
Rentaro MikuniIkki Kita
Yasuyo MatsumuraSuzu- Yasuo MiyakeSoldier
Akiko KuranoSoldier's wife- Tadahiko SuganoNishida Mitsugi
Kei IinumaIwasa
Taketoshi NaitōArmy officer
Masao ImafukuWounded soldier
Kazunaga TsujiHeigo Asahi
Masako YagiHeigo's sister
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