Synopsis
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.
1977 ‘八甲田山’ Directed by Shirō Moritani
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.
Ken Takakura Hideji Ōtaki Kinya Kitaoji Tetsurō Tamba Rentaro Mikuni Komaki Kurihara Akira Hamada Mariko Kaga Yūzō Kayama Kumiko Akiyoshi Kenichi Kato Ren Ebata Keiju Kobayashi Takuya Fujioka Jun Tazaki Jun Hamamura Gin Maeda Shigeru Kōyama Michihiro Yamanishi Atom Shimojo Eimei Esumi Isao Tamagawa Hirokazu Inoue Toshitaka Itō Ken Ogata Tokue Hanazawa Yoshi Katō Yutaka Nakano Makoto Ohtake Show All…
Hakkodasan, Горы Хаккода
i love it when new restorations - such as the one done for this movie - have a color palette limited to shit brown, piss yellow and puke green! we should always leave the work of grading old, revered movies to hack colorists who primarily work on new movies and rarely watch anything made before 2010! let them leave their vile stench on pre-digital movies completely unabated! keep it up, everybody has been absolutely clamoring for it!
It doesn't happen very often I get to write a first review here.
Hakkodasan presents as a war film and soldiers are indeed dropping like flies - but not from bullets and instead from freezing to death. The film is based on a fictional account of real event in 1902. In preparation for a winter war with Russia two groups of soldiers were tasked to cross a mountain range in winter and got trapped in literally the worst weather the region had experienced ever which resulted in almost everyone dying. Captain Tokushima leads a small group of more experienced army personnel from the North of the mountain range and captain Kanada leads a full platoon of inexperienced soldiers from the…
For Ken completionists only. Honestly, reading up on the subject is more interesting than a 3 hour movie about it.