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.

Details

Cast

Ken Ogata

Toshiyuki Nishida

Takuzō Kawatani

Noboru Mitani

Hiroyuki Okita

Nozomibun Yoneyama

Tohru Emori

Marina Vlady

Oleg Yankovskiy

Evgeniy Evstigneev