Mount Hakkoda (1977 film)
| 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 |
| Edited by |
Michiko Ikeda Jūgo Takemura |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Toho |
Release dates |
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Running time | 169 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Box office |
 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
- List of submissions to the 50th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
- List of Japanese submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
References
- ↑ "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.
External links
- Hakkōda-san at the Internet Movie Database
- Mount Hakkoda at the Japanese Movie Database (Japanese)