Sumptuous filming of the journey of a shipwrecked Japanese expedition from the Pacific Ocean across Siberia to the court of Catherine the Great of Russia. A Russo-Japanese co-production of a unique event in history which was the hit of Cannes and other film festivals but did not receive wide distribution despite its huge scope, high production values, and very human story of culture clash.
Cast
Ken Ogata
Koudayu Daikokuya - captain
Toshiyuki Nishida
Atsuzou - navigator
Takuzō Kawatani
Koichi
Noboru Mitani
Kudzaemon
Hiroyuki Okita
Shinzou
Nozomibun Yoneyama
Isokichi
Tohru Emori
Sadanobu Matsudaira
Marina Vlady
Yekaterina II - empress
Oleg Yankovskiy
Kirill Gustavovich Laksman - academician
Evgeniy Evstigneev
Bush - gardener
Elena Arzhanik
Sofya Ivanovna Bush
Yuriy Solomin
Bezborodko - count
Vitali Solomin
Shelekhov - Irkutsk nobleman
Viktor Stepanov
Yakov Nevidimov
Anastasiya Nemolyaeva
Tatyana
Tatyana Bedova
Unknown
Anatoliy Skoryakin
Unknown
Vladimir Eryomin
Vorontsov - count
Sergei Stepanchenko
Boris - Nevidimov's servant
Viktor Smirnov
Iosif
Aleksandr Blok
Unknown
Sergei Parshin
Russian naval officer
Boris Klyuev
Russian naval officer
Yuji Ueda
Unknown
Mikhail Godin
city dweller
Pavel Kornakov
Unknown
Leonard Varfolomeev
Unknown
Tatyana Mikhalevkina
Unknown
Aleksey Serebryakov
seafarer
Elena Borzunova
reads voiceover (voice)
Igor Taradaikin
reads voiceover (voice)
Crew
Junya Satō
Director, Screenplay
Fumio Kōnami
Screenplay
Tatsuo Nogami
Screenplay
Yasushi Inoue
Novel
Akira Suzuki
Editor
Mutsuo Naganuma
Director of Photography
Tsutomu Sakurai
Producer
Yasuyoshi Tokuma
Producer
Tsutomu Tsuchikawa
Producer
Hiroshi Yamamoto
Producer
Valeri Yurkevich
Production Design
Yekaterina Shapkayts
Costume Design
Marina Kaishauri
Costume Design
Katsu Hoshi
Original Music Composer
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