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. A long and lavish production which became only a modest critical and commercial success, Shinoda intended the film to be his final feature.
Plot
The life of Richard Sorge, a German spy for Red Army's Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) in Japan. The movie started with the arrest of Richard Sorge and Hotsumi Ozaki by Japanese Special Higher Police in Tokyo, followed by Sorge's recount of his life and mission in Japan.
Cast
- Iain Glen : Richard Sorge
- Masahiro Motoki : Hotsumi Ozaki
- Kippei Shiina : Mitsusada Yoshikawa
- Takaya Kamikawa : Tokko T
- Toshiya Nagasawa : Miyagi Yotoku
- Riona Hazuki : Hanako Miyake
- Koyuki : Yoshiko Yamazaki
- Armin Marewski : Branko Vukelic
- Yui Natsukawa : Hideko Ozaki
- Takaaki Enoki : 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: Robert Mandy & Masahiro Shinoda
- Producers : Masato Hara, Masaru Koibuchi & Peter Rawley for Asmik Ace Entertainment & Manfred Durniok Filmproduktion
- 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 Hajime Oikawa 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 Hideshi Mikami
- Best Music Score for Shin’ichirō Ikebe
- Best Screenplay for Masahiro Shinoda and Robert Mandy
- Best Sound for Tetsuo Segawa
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