Cast
- Ken Watanabe as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
- Kazunari Ninomiya as Private First Class Saigo
- Tsuyoshi Ihara as Colonel Baron Takeichi Nishi
- Ryō Kase as Superior Private Shimizu
- Shido Nakamura as Lieutenant Ito
- Hiroshi Watanabe as Lieutenant Fujita
- Takumi Bando as Captain Tanida
- Yuki Matsuzaki as Private First Class Nozaki
- Takashi Yamaguchi as Private First Class Kashiwara
- Eijiro Ozaki as Lieutenant Okubo
- Nae Yuuki as Hanako, Saigo's wife
- Nobumasa Sakagami as Admiral Ohsugi
- Masashi Nagadoi as Admiral Ichimaru
- Akiko Shima as Lead Woman
- Luke Eberl as Sam, wounded American Marine
- Jeremy Glazer as American Marine Lieutenant
- Ikuma Ando as Ozawa
- Mark Moses as American officer
- Roxanne Hart as Officer's wife
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