Mount Hakkoda

Japan Release: 1977
Running Time:
169 minutes

Mount Hakkoda


Japanese Title

 八甲田山
[Hakkoda Yama]

Distributor: Production:

Toho
Toho / Shimano Kikaku / Hashimoto Productions

[Pending]

Live Action

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Titles

International Title

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Initial US Title

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Alternate Titles

Mount Hakkoda
[Literal translation]

 


Staff

Cast

Directed by Shiro Moritani
Writing credits Shinobu Hashimoto, Jiro Nitta
Produced by Shinobu Hashimoto, Tomoyuki Tanaka, Yoshitaro Nomura, Masayuki Sato, Kazuo Baba
Music by Yasushi Akutagawa
Cinematography by Daisaku Kimura
Film Editing by Michiko Ikeda
Production Design by Iwao Akune
Assistant Director Masao Nagai
Nakabayashi, Colonel Hideji Otaki
Tomoda, General Shogo Shimada
Tokushima, Captain Ken Takakura
Kanda, Captain Kinya Kitaoji
Kojima, Colonel Tetsuro Tamba
Yamada, Major Rentaro Mikuni
Hatsuko Kanda, Captain Kanda's Wife Komaki Kurihara
Tanabe, Lieutenant Akira Hamada
Taeko Tokushima, Captain Tokushima's Wife Mariko Kaga
Kurata, Captain Yuzo Kayama
Sawa Takiguchi, Guide Kumiko Akiyoshi
Takahata, Second Lieutenant Kenichi Kato
Funayama, Apprentice Officer Ren Ebata
Nagao, Apprentice Officer Kohei Takayama
Kuramochi, Apprentice Officer Kenji Yasunaga
Sato Ben Hiura
Koyama Shosuke Hirose
Kawase, Corporal Michio Yoshimura
Saito, Corporal Gin Maeda
Motomiya, Major Shigeru Koyama
Mikami, Second Lieutenant Kensaku Morita
Ito, Lieutenant Eishin Tono
Kurahashi, Lieutenant Tetsuo Kaneo
Ono, Lieutenant Yoshinori Furukawa
Noguchi, Apprentice Officer Michihiro Yamanishi
Eto, Corporal Katsutoshi Atarashi
Hirayama Atomu Shimojo
Okitsu, Captain Isao Tamagawa
Nagano, Army Surgeon Masaru Ryuzaki
Shindo, Command Sergeant Major Hideaki Esumi
Imanishi, Command Sergeant Major Hirokazu Inoue
Hasebe Hironori Sakuma
Hanada, Corporal Toshitaka Ito
Murayama, Corporal Ken Ogata
Denzo Takuguchi Tokue Hanazawa
Sakuemon Yoshi Kato
Inoue, Apprentice Officer Yutaka Nakano
Tetsutaro Fukuzawa Kibaji Tankobo
Kichihei Sawanaka Hatsuo Yamaya
- Takuya Fujioka
- Keiju Kobayashi
- Jun Tazaki
- Kin Sugai
- Jun Hamamura
- Hiroaki Hamada
- Makoto Otake


Posters


Box Office

Release Date: June 4th, 1977 (Japan)
Distribution Earning: ¥1,982,000,000 / $7,500,000 (Japan, Rough Figure)

DVDs and Blu-rays

Japan Region 2 Mount Hakkoda SBACC (2000)
Japan Region 2 Mount Hakkoda: Special Edition M3 Entertainment (2004)

CD Soundtracks


Background and Trivia

  • Based on the novel "Mount Hakkoda: Mountain of Death" (八甲田山死の彷徨 - Hakkoda Yama shi no Hoko) by Jiro Nitta, a semi-fictional retelling of the Hakkoda Mountain incident in 1902.