Coup D'Etat

Name: Coup D'Etat
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Released: 1973-07-07
Duration: 1 h 50 min
Rating: 7.10
Cast: Akiko Kurano, Yasuo Miyake, Tadahiko Sugano, Rentarô Mikuni

– A freestyle biopic of Ikki Kita, the ultranationalist intellectual whose ideas inspired the failed m..

Type:

Movie

Rating:

7.10 / 10

Duration:

One Hour and 50 Minutes

Release Year:

1973

Original Name:

戒厳令

Coup D'Etat — Coup d'Etat (1973) - Also known as 戒厳令

A freestyle biopic of Ikki Kita, the ultranationalist intellectual whose ideas inspired the failed military coup in 1936.

Producing Country:

Japan

Filming Locations:

Japan

Genre:

History, Biography, Drama

Release Date:

07 Jul 1973

Language:

Japanese

MPAA Content-Rating:

Not Rated

Directed by:

Yoshishige Yoshida

Story Written By:

Minoru Betsuyaku

Main Actors:

Akiko Kurano, Yasuo Miyake, Tadahiko Sugano, Rentarô Mikuni

Plot:

Ikka Kita is a revolutionary, who suffers when he is brought his younger brother's clothes, still smeared with his blood. Ikka's brother followed the revoltionary's precept and acted, attempting on the life of a finantial group manager and then, unable to escape, killing himself. Now, Ikka is more determined than ever to take his own teachings to the ultimate end, the «coup d'etat».

Ratings:

Internet Movie Database:

7.1/10

#Militarism

#Year 1936

#Japanese New Wave

#Capital Punishment

#Imperial Japan

#University Professor

#Firing Squad

#Martial Law

#Imperialism