is a 2014 film about the
Hakkōda Mountains incident
The occurred on January 23, 1902, when a group of Imperial Japanese Army soldiers became lost in a blizzard on the Hakkōda Mountains in Aomori Prefecture in northern Honshu, Japan, en route to Tashiro Hot Spring located in the Hakkōda Mountain ...
. It is based on the non-fiction book ''Tragedy in a Blizzard'' by Koshu Ogasawara.
Cast
* Atsushi Takahashi as Lt.Colonel Tsugawa
* Seiji Kawada as Major Yamaguchi
* Takahito Arai as Captain Kannari
* Akinori Sumiyoshi as Lieutenant Ito
* Katsuhiko Tanabe as Second Lieutenant Mikami
* Taichi Ishida as Medical Officer Nagai
* Yuma Sato as Corporal Obara
* Yuta Moriya as Corporal
Fusanosuke Goto
Fusanosuke (written: 房之助 or 房之介) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:
*, Japanese soldier and amputee
*, Japanese businessman and politician
*, Japanese writer and cartoonist
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* Makoto Sasaki as Corporal Muramatsu
* Toshiya Toya as Corporal Oikawa
* Hitoshi Hasegawa as Village Elder
* Amy Kubo as Sachiyo Goto (Cpl Goto's wife)
Production
The scenes in which the 5th Infantry Regiment gradually lose their way were filmed on location in the
Hakkōda Mountains
The are an active volcanic complex in south-central Aomori Prefecture, Japan, in Towada-Hachimantai National Park. Often called or simply , the mountains are collectively listed as one of the 100 Famous Japanese Mountains. Its highest peak, ...
. Most of the victims died at Narusawa on January 25, their second day bivouacking in the snow. Scenes set there were shot on site at exactly the same day and time, and the entire cast and crew offered a silent prayer for the victims.
See also
* ''
Mount Hakkoda (1977 film)
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 ...
'', an earlier film about the same incident
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2014 films
2010s Japanese-language films
Japanese drama films
Italian drama films
Climbing and mountaineering films
Films shot in Japan
Films set in 1902
Disaster films based on actual events
2010s English-language films
2010s Japanese films
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