Mount Hakkoda (1977 film)
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 the Hakkōda Mountains in the winter of 1902,[1] 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.[2]
| Mount Hakkōda | |
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| Directed by | Shirō Moritani |
| Produced by | Shinobu Hashimoto |
| Written by | Shinobu Hashimoto Yoshitarō Nomura Tomoyuki Tanaka |
| Starring | |
| Music by | Yasushi Akutagawa |
| Cinematography | Daisaku Kimura |
| Edited by | Michiko Ikeda Jūgo Takemura |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Toho |
Release date |
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Running time | 169 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Box office |  2.59 billion JPY |
Cast
- Ken Takakura as Captain Tokushima
- Kin'ya Kitaōji as Captain Kanda
- Yūzō Kayama as Captain Kurata
- Rentarō Mikuni as Major Yamada
- Komaki Kurihara as Hatsuko Kanda (Captain Kanda's wife)
- Kumiko Akiyoshi as Sawa Takiguchi (Guide)
- Hideji Otaki as Colonel Nakabayashi
- Shōgo Shimada as General Tomoda
- Akira Hamada as Lieutenant Tanabe
- Mariko Kaga as Taeko Tokushima (Captain Tokushima's wife)
- Kenichi Kato as Second Lieutenant Takahata
- Ren Ebata as Apprentice officer Funayama
- Gin Maeda as Saito
- Kin Sugai as Mother of Saito
- Ben Hiura as Sato
- Yoshi Kato as Saemon
- Jun Tazaki as Sadao Suzuki
- Isao Tamagawa as Okitsu
- Shigeru Koyama as Kinomiya
- Katsutoshi Arata as Eto
- Michihiro Yamanishi as Noguchi
- Kensaku Morita as Mikami
- Kohei Takayama as Apprentice officer Nagao
- Gin Maeda as Corporal Saitō
- Keiju Kobayashi as Commander Tsumura
- Ken Ogata as Corporal Murayama
- Tetsurō Tamba as Colonel Kojima
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
- "八甲田山". Agency for Cultural Affairs 映画情報システム. Retrieved 2 November 2019.
- "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 IMDb
- Mount Hakkoda at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)
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