Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Junya Satō Director
- Ken Ogata as Koudayu Daikokuya - captain
- Toshiyuki Nishida as Atsuzou - navigator
- Takuzō Kawatani as Koichi
- Noboru Mitani as Kudzaemon
- Hiroyuki Okita as Shinzou
- Nozomibun Yoneyama as Isokichi
- Tohru Emori as Sadanobu Matsudaira
- Marina Vlady as Yekaterina II - empress
- Oleg Yankovsky as Kirill Gustavovich Laksman - academician
- Evgeniy Evstigneev as Bush - gardener
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