Spy Sorge
Spy Sorge (スパイ・ゾルゲ) is a Japanese film directed by Masahiro Shinoda in 2003, about the Soviet spy Richard Sorge.[1][2] Shinoda intended the film, a long and lavish production that had only modest critical and commercial success, as his final feature.
Plot[]
The film presents the life of Richard Sorge, a German spy for the Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) of the Soviet Army in Japan. Sorge and his contact Hotsumi Ozaki are arrested by the Tokubetsu Kōtō Keisatsu (Special Higher Police) in Tokyo, and Sorge recounts the main events in flashbacks.[3][4]
Cast[]
- Iain Glen : Richard Sorge
- Masahiro Motoki : Hotsumi Ozaki
- Kippei Shiina : Mitsusada Yoshikawa
- Takaya Kamikawa : Tokko T
- : Miyagi Yotoku
- Riona Hazuki : Hanako Miyake
- Koyuki : Yoshiko Yamazaki
- : Branko Vukelic
- Yui Natsukawa : Hideko Ozaki
- : Duke Fumimaro Konoye
- Hideji Otaki : Duke Kinmochi Sai-onji
- Michael Christian : Josef Albert Meisinger
- Shima Iwashita : Mrs. Konoe
- Ulrich Mühe : Eugen Ott
- Wolfgang S. Zechmayer : Max Christiansen-Clausen
- Mia Yu : Agnes Smedley
- Hanayagi Juraku : Emperor Hirohito
- Maro Akaji : Sugiyama Hajime
- Mitsuru Fukikoshi : Saionji Kenkazu
- Shingo Tsurumi : Ushiba Tomohiko
- Dō Haraguchi : Shigeru Honjō
- Naoto Takenaka : Hideki Tojo
- Tsuruoka Daijirō : Yasuhide Kurihara
- Youichi Okamura : Taketora Ogata
- Tatsu Kaneko : Takahashi Korekiyo
- Marek Wlodarczyk : Yan Karlovich Berzin
- Jurij Rosstalnyi : Semyon Uritsky
- Robert Mika : Lavrentiy Beria
- Peter Borchert : Joseph Stalin
Technical details[]
- Writers: & Masahiro Shinoda
- Producers : , & for Asmik Ace Entertainment &
- Music : Shin’ichirō Ikebe
- Photography : Tatsuo Suzuki
- Length: Japan : 182 min
- Country: Japan / Germany
- Language: Japanese
- Colour: Colour
- Sound: Dolby Digital
Honours[]
- Best Art Direction for at the Awards of the Japanese Academy in 2004
- Also nominated at the same awards in the following categories:
- Best Cinematography for Tatsuo Suzuki
- Best Director for Masahiro Shinoda
- Best Editing for Hiroshi Okuda
- Best Film
- Best Lighting for
- Best Music Score for Shin’ichirō Ikebe
- Best Screenplay for Masahiro Shinoda and Robert Mandy
- Best Sound for
References[]
- ^ "スパイ・ゾルゲ". Agency for Cultural Affairs 映画情報システム. Retrieved 2 November 2019.
- ^ "スパイ・ゾルゲ". kotobank. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
- ^ "スパイ・ゾルゲ". 映画の時間. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
- ^ "スパイ・ゾルゲ". Kinema Junpo. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
External links[]
Categories:
- 2003 films
- 2000s biographical films
- 2000s spy films
- Japanese biographical films
- Japanese films
- World War II spy films
- World War II films based on actual events
- 2000s Japanese film stubs
- Biographical film stubs