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The Last War
The Japanese poster for The Last War
Alternate titles
Flagicon Japan.png The Great World War (1961)
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Directed by Shue Matsubayashi
Producer Sanezumi Fujimoto, Tomoyuki Tanaka[1]
Written by Toshio Yasumi, Takeshi Kimura
Music by Ikuma Dan
Distributor TohoJP,
Brenco PicturesUS
Box office ¥284,900,000[2]
Running time 110 minutesJP
(1 hour, 50 minutes)
79 minutesUS
(1 hour, 19 minutes)
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The Last War (世界大戦争,   Sekai Daisensō, lit. The Great World War) is a 1961 tokusatsu science-fiction film produced by Toho. It was released to Japanese theaters on October 8, 1961.

Plot

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Staff

Staff role on the left, staff member's name on the right.

  • Directed by   Shue Matsubayashi
  • Written by   Toshio Yasumi, Takeshi Kimura
  • Produced by   Sanezumi Fujimoto, Tomoyuki Tanaka
  • Music by   Ikuma Dan
  • Cinematography by   Rokuro Nishigaki
  • Edited by   Koichi Iwashita
  • Production design by   Takeo Kita, Teruaki Abe
  • Assistant directing by   Yasuyoshi Tajitsu
  • Special effects by   Eiji Tsuburaya, Sadamasa Arikawa, Takao Miyuki, Yoshiyuki Tokumasa, Akira Watanabe, Kuichiro Kishida, Hiroshi Mukoyama, Kan Narita
  • Recording by   Fumio Yanoguchi
  • Mixing by   Hisashi Shimonaga
  • Production Manager   Boku Morimoto

Cast

Actor's name on the left, character played on the right.

  • Frankie Sakai   as   Mokichi Tamura
  • Akira Takarada   as   Takano
  • Yuriko Hoshi   as   Saeko Tamura
  • Nobuko Otawa   as   Mokichi's Wife
  • Yumi Shirakawa   as   Saeko
  • Shu Ryuichi   as  
  • Jerry Ito   as   Watkins
  • Eijiro Tono   as  
  • So Yamamura   as   Prime Minister
  • Ken Uehara   as   Foreign Minister
  • Seizaburo Kawazu   as   Defense Agency General
  • Nobuo Nakamura   as   Chief Cabinet Secretary
  • Chieko Nakakita   as   Oharu
  • Minoru Takada   as   Tokyo Defense Commander
  • Shigeki Ishida   as   Arimura
  • Naoko Sakabe   as   Suzue
  • Kozo Nomura   as  
  • Masao Oda   as  
  • Yutaka Sada   as  
  • Nadao Kirino   as  
  • Koji Uno   as  
  • Seiji Yoshida   as  
  • Toshihiko Furuta   as  
  • Kyoko Mori   as   Female shipping company clerk
  • Teruko Mita   as   Imoko
  • Jiro Kumagai   as  
  • Soji Ubukatta   as  
  • Shiro Tsuchiya   as  
  • Keiichiro Katsumoto   as  
  • Naoya Kusakawa   as  
  • Wataru Omae   as  
  • Yoshio Katsube   as  
  • Masaki Shinohara   as  
  • Yutaka Oka   as  
  • Koji Abe   as  
  • Yuko Tominaga   as  
  • Yuki Shimizu   as   Female commercial company clerk
  • Toshiko Nakano   as   Neighbor A
  • Tsurue Ichimanji   as   Neighbor B
  • Asami Hotaka   as  
  • Howard Larson   as   Federal Army Staff
  • Ed Keene   as   Alliance Commander
  • Bernard Barre   as   Alliance Maintenance Officer
  • Clifford Harlington   as  
  • Hank Brown   as   Federal Army Lieutenant
  • Daniel Jones   as  
  • Ben Greenhough   as  
  • Mike Snape   as  
  • Roy Lessard   as  
  • Hans Horneff   as  
  • Harold Conway   as   Federal Army Firing Commander
  • Osman Yusuf   as  
  • Robert Dunham   as   Alliance Staff (uncredited)
  • Haruo Nakajima   as   Policeman (uncredited)

Appearances

Weapons, Vehicles, and Races

  • Federation
    • Federal Missile Tank
    • Nuclear Missile
    • Federal Attack Submarine
  • Alliance
    • Allied Fighter Plane
    • Allied Attack Submarine

Production

Gallery

Main article: The Last War/Gallery.

Soundtrack

Main article: The Last War (Soundtrack).

Alternate Titles

  • World War III: the Day of Tokyo's End (第三次世界大戦 東京最後の日; Early Japanese title)[1]
  • Death-Rays from Outer Space (Todesstrahlen aus dem Weltall; Germany)
  • The Last War of the Apocalypse (La Dernière Guerre de l'Apocalypse; France)

Theatrical Releases

U.S. Release

Box Office

Video Releases

Videos

The Last War Japanese trailer (reconstruction)
The Last War International trailer
The Last War American TV trailer
The Last War American TV spot

Trivia

  • For the scenes depicting the destruction of Paris, Moscow, New York, London, and Tokyo, Eiji Tsuburaya suggested created miniatures out of paraffin, before it was suggested to use wafers. In a 1996 interview, miniature builder Yoshio Irie recalled "Since the destruction of the world's cities was going to be such a crucial element of [The Last War], we tried to find a substance that would produce especially convincing results when blown up. We experimented with many different materials, but found that wafers worked best. Unfortunately, we also found that mice liked to eat the wafers."[3]
    • In order to combat the issue of mice eating the wafers, several of the miniatures were hung and filmed upside down, which ultimately made them look in the finished film like they were being blasted high into the air.[3]

References

This is a list of references for The Last War. These citations are used to identify the reliable sources on which this article is based. These references appear inside articles in the form of superscript numbers, which look like this: [1]

  1. 1.0 1.1 Toho Special Effects Movie Complete Works. Village Books. 28 September 2012. pp. 59–60. ISBN 4-864-91013-8. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  2. Kinema Junpo Best Ten 85 Times Full History 1924→2011. Kinema Junpo. 2012. p. 180. ISBN 9784873767550.
  3. 3.0 3.1 August Ragone (6 May 2014). Eiji Tsuburaya: Master of Monsters. Chronicle Books LLC. p. 65. ISBN 1452135398. Check date values in: |date= (help)

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