What the War Meant (movie)
あの戦争は何だったのか 日米開戦と東条英機- Production country: Japan
- Producer: Shin'ichi Kamoshita
- Production companies: TBS
- Genre: Drama, War, History
- Release date: 12/24/2008
- Run time: 277 min.
Movie description
The drama stars Beat Takeshi as General Hideki Tojo, who served as Prime Minister of Japan during World War II and was later executed as a war criminal. The story's theme is said to be a look at how the Pacific War began, focusing mostly on the three month period between the Imperial Conference (Gozen Kaigi) on September 6, 1941, and the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
