Title: 八甲田山
Romaji : Hakkoda-san
Title (English): Mount Hakkoda
Director: Shirō Moritani
Writer: Shinobu Hashimoto, Yoshitarō Nomura, Tomoyuki Tanaka
Producer: Shinobu Hashimoto
Cinematographer: Daisaku Kimura
Release Date: June 04, 1977
Runtime: 169 min.
Genre: War
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan
Plot
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.
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