Overview
Two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army—210 men overall—tackled Mt. Hakkoda in the winter of 1902 to prepare for war with Russia.
Fun facts
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Nominations
Nominated for the International Submission to the Academy Awards (1978)
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Setting
Set in Japan
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Music
Music by Yasushi Akutagawa
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Daisaku Kimura
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Jirô NittaNovel
- Shinobu HashimotoWriter
- Original title
- 八甲田山
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- June 4, 1977
- Original language
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
Cast
Ken TakakuraCaptain Tokushima
Hideji ŌtakiColonel Nakabayashi
Kinya KitaojiCaptain Kanda
Tetsuro TambaColonel Kojima
Rentaro MikuniMajor Yamada
Komaki KuriharaHatsuko Kanda (Captain Kanda's wife)
Akira HamadaLieutenant Tanabe
Mariko KagaTaeko Tokushima (Captain Tokushima's wife)
Yūzō KayamaCaptain Kurata
Kumiko AkiyoshiSawa Takiguchi (Guide)
Kenichi KatoSecond Lieutenant Takahata- Ren EbataApprentice officer Funayama
Keiju Kobayashi
Takuya Fujioka
Jun Tazaki
Jun Hamamura
Gin MaedaCorporal Saito
Shigeru KōyamaMajor Motomiya
Michihiro YamanishiApprentice officer Noguchi
Atom Shimojo
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