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Mount Hakkoda (1977 film)

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is a 1977 Japanese film directed by Shir Moritani. Based on the novelist Jir Nitta's recounting of the Hakkda 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 Hakkda Mountains 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 Kitaji as Captain Kanda ()

* Yz Kayama as Captain Kurata ()

* Rentar Mikuni as Major Yamada ()

* Komaki Kurihara as Hatsuko Kanda (Captain Kanda's wife)

* Hideji Otaki as Colonel Nakabayashi ()

* Shgo Shimada as General Tomoda, commander of the 4th Brigade ()

* Akira Hamada as Lieutenant Tanabe ()

* Mariko Kaga as Taeko Tokushima (Captain Tokushima's wife)

* Kenichi Kato as Sublieutenant Takahata ()

* Ren Ebata as Apprentice Officer Funayama ()

* Gin Maeda as Corporal Sait ()

* Kin Sugai as Sait's mother

* Ben Hiura as Sat ()

* Kumiko Akiyoshi as Takiguchi Sawa, a local mountain guide from Utarube village ()

* Hanasawa Tokue as Takiguchi Denz, Utarube villager and adoptive father of Sawa ()

* Yoshi Kato as Saemon, chief of Tamogino village ()

* Jun Tazaki as Sadao Suzuki, master of the Sanbongi relay station ()

* Isao Tamagawa as Captain Okitsu ()

* Takuya Fujioka as Major Monma, commander of the 1st Battalion ()

* Shigeru Koyama as Major Kinomiya, officer at the regimental headquarters ()

* Katsutoshi Arata as Eto ()

* Michihiro Yamanishi as Noguchi ()

* Kensaku Morita as Sublieutenant Mikami ()

* Kohei Takayama as Apprentice Officer Nagao ()

* Keiju Kobayashi as Commander Tsumura ()

* Ken Ogata as Corporal Murayama ()

* Tetsur Tamba as Colonel Kojima ()

* Funahashi Sabur as Saikai Yjir, a war correspondent for the T- Nipp ()

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




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