The Dream of Russia

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.

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  Junya Satō

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  Ken Ogata
  Koudayu Daikokuya - captain
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  Toshiyuki Nishida
  Atsuzou - navigator
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  Takuzō Kawatani
  Koichi
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  Noboru Mitani
  Kudzaemon
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  Hiroyuki Okita
  Shinzou
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  Nozomibun Yoneyama
  Isokichi
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  Tohru Emori
  Sadanobu Matsudaira
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  Marina Vlady
  Yekaterina II - empress
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  Oleg Yankovskiy
  Kirill Gustavovich Laksman - academician
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  Evgeniy Evstigneev
  Bush - gardener
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  Elena Arzhanik
  Sofya Ivanovna Bush
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  Yuriy Solomin
  Bezborodko - count
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  Vitali Solomin
  Shelekhov - Irkutsk nobleman
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  Viktor Stepanov
  Yakov Nevidimov
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  Anastasiya Nemolyaeva
  Tatyana
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  Tatyana Bedova
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  Anatoliy Skoryakin
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  Vladimir Eryomin
  Vorontsov - count
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  Sergei Stepanchenko
  Boris - Nevidimov's servant
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  Viktor Smirnov
  Iosif