Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified positions in the world, during the Russo-Japanese War of (1904 - 1905). In the story dominated the character Lt Takeshi Kogyo (Teruhiko Aoi), teachers, and a reserve officer who became commander of the platoon and later company. At the same time monitors the conduct of the army commander general Nogi (Tatsuya Nakadai), which was commissioned of the emperor Matsuhito (Toshirô Mifune) to the conquest of the fort.
Tatsuya Nakadai
Maresuke Nogi
Teruhiko Aoi
Takeshi Koga
Kenji Niinuma
Masayuki Yuhara
Kikumatsu Umetani
Makoto Satō
Toshiyuki Nagashima
Yasusuke Nogi
Akio Hasegawa
Yoshio Inaba
Kosuke Ijichi
Katsutoshi Atarashi
Jirô Chiba
Jun Funato
Jiro Shirai
Torahiko Hamada
Naoharu Osako
Hiroshi Kondō
Hisanao Oshima
Ichirō Izawa
Harunobu Tomoyasu
Isao Tamagawa
Kanemoto Matsumura
