Coup d'Etat

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Coup d'Etat

1973

1h 50m

6.6(19 votes)

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Overview

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

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13 members

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三国連太郎

Ikki Kita

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松村康世

Suzu

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Yasuo Miyake

Soldier

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Akiko Kurano

Soldier's wife

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Tadahiko Sugano

Nishida Mitsugi

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Kei Iinuma

Iwasa

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内藤武敏

Army officer

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今福将雄

Wounded soldier

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辻萬長

Heigo Asahi

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八木昌子

Heigo's sister

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Hatsuo Itô

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南條新太郎

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小林加奈枝

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