Mount Hakkoda (film)

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Mount Hakkōda
Directed by Shirō Moritani
Produced by Shinobu Hashimoto
Written by Shinobu Hashimoto
Yoshitarō Nomura
Tomoyuki Tanaka
Starring Ken Takakura
Kinya Kitaōji
Rentarō Mikuni
Yūzō Kayama
Music by Yasushi Akutagawa
Cinematography Daisaku Kimura
Editing by Michiko Ikeda
Jūgo Takemura
Studio Toho
Distributed by Toho
Release dates
  • June 4, 1977 (1977-06-04) (Japan)
Running time 169 minutes
Country Japan
Language Japanese
Box office Japan 2.59 billion JPY

Mt. Hakkoda (八甲田山 Hakkōda-san) is a 1977 Japanese film directed by Shirō Moritani. Based on the novelist Jirō Nitta's recounting of the Hakkōda Mountains incident, the film tells the story of two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army, consisting of 210 men, that tried to traverse Mt. Hakkoda in the winter of 1902, in preparation for the anticipated Russo-Japanese War. The film was Japan's submission to the 50th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee.[1]

Cast

  • Shōgo Shimada as General Tomoda
  • Ken Takakura as Captain Tokushima
  • Hideji Otaki as Colonel Nakabayashi
  • Kin'ya Kitaōji as Captain Kanda
  • Tetsurō Tanba as Colonel Kojima
  • Rentarō Mikuni as Major Yamada
  • Komaki Kurihara as Hatsuko Kanda (Captain Kanda's wife)
  • Akira Hamada as Lieutenant Tanabe
  • Mariko Kaga as Taeko Tokushima (Captain Tokushima's wife)
  • Yuzo Kayama as Captain Kurata
  • Kumiko Akiyoshi as Sawa Takiguchi (Guide)
  • Kenichi Kato as Second Lieutenant Takahata
  • Ren Ebata as Apprentice officer Funayama
  • Kohei Takayama as Apprentice officer Nagao

See also

References

  1. "List of Japanese films nominated for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film" (in Japanese). Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan. Retrieved 2008-06-22. 

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