

The Dream of Russia
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.
Movie Details
Languages
Japanese
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Studio
Daiei Film
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Key Crew

Yasuyoshi Tokuma
Producer

Tsutomu Tsuchikawa
Producer

Junya Satō
Director

Fumio Kōnami
Screenplay

Junya Satō
Screenplay
Cast

Ken Ogata
Koudayu Daikokuya - captain

Toshiyuki Nishida
Atsuzou - navigator

Takuzō Kawatani
Koichi

Noboru Mitani
Kudzaemon

Hiroyuki Okita
Shinzou

Nozomibun Yoneyama
Isokichi

Tohru Emori
Sadanobu Matsudaira

Marina Vlady
Yekaterina II - empress

Oleg Yankovskiy
Kirill Gustavovich Laksman - academician

Evgeniy Evstigneev
Bush - gardener

Elena Arzhanik
Sofya Ivanovna Bush

Yuriy Solomin
Bezborodko - count

Vitali Solomin
Shelekhov - Irkutsk nobleman

Viktor Stepanov
Yakov Nevidimov

Anastasiya Nemolyaeva
Tatyana

Tatyana Bedova

Anatoliy Skoryakin

Vladimir Eryomin
Vorontsov - count

Sergei Stepanchenko
Boris - Nevidimov's servant

Viktor Smirnov
Iosif