Mount Hakkoda (1977 film)

Mount Hakkōda
Directed by	Shirō Moritani
Written by	Shinobu Hashimoto Yoshitarō Nomura Tomoyuki Tanaka
Produced by	Shinobu Hashimoto
Starring	Ken Takakura Kinya Kitaōji Yūzō Kayama Rentarō Mikuni
Cinematography	Daisaku Kimura
Edited by	Michiko Ikeda Jūgo Takemura
Music by	Yasushi Akutagawa
Production company	Toho
Distributed by	Toho
Release date	June 4, 1977 (1977-06-04) (Japan)
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.

Cast

• Ken Takakura as Captain Tokushima
• Kin'ya Kitaōji as Captain Kanda
• Yūzō Kayama as Captain Kurata
• Komaki Kurihara as Hatsuko Kanda (Captain Kanda's wife)
• Kumiko Akiyoshi as Sawa Takiguchi (Guide)
• Hideji Otaki as Colonel Nakabayashi
• Tetsurō Tanba as Colonel Kojima
• 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
• Kohei Takayama as Apprentice officer Nagao
• Rentarō Mikuni as Major Yamada

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

External links

• Hakkōda-san at IMDb
• Mount Hakkoda at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)