Yellow Fangs

Yellow Fangs (1990)

リメインズ　美しき勇者たち

900 pounds of ferocious terror!

Based on actual events that occurred in Hokkaido, Japan, 1915. Rimeinzu: Utsukushiki yuusha-tachi tells the story of a group of bear hunters that are tracking a 900 pound brown bear nicknamed Red Spots that is terrorising the area. It attacks and kills men, but it feasts only on women.

Date of release
1990-02-10
TMDB
7.1 / 10 (8)
Runtime
1h 47m
Genres
Drama, Horror, Adventure
Director
Sonny Chiba

Casting

Interesting facts

Yellow Fangs is a 1990 Japanese disaster film directed by Sonny Chiba. It is the 20th anniversary commemorative work of Japan Action Enterprise and adapts the Sankebetsu brown bear incident in December 1915. The action film stars Hiroyuki Sanada and Mika Muramutsu as childhood friends who hunt down a man-eating bear. Muramatsu won the New Actor Award at the 14th Japan Academy Film Prize for her role in the film.

Production

Sonny Chiba asked Kinji Fukasaku to direct the film, but Fukasaku encouraged him to direct the work himself, and it became Chiba's first directorial work. In addition to supervising the project, Fukasaku provided logistical support by lending his assistant director and attending filming.

Japan Action Enterprise (JAC) cast Mika Muramatsu as the main heroine, Teru Kurosaki, Takeshi Maya, and Satoshi Kurihara as matagi, and Osamu Kaneda was appointed as the action director. Hiroyuki Sanada, who starred in the film, was also the music director.

Real bears were used in many scenes. In order to create a tense scene where they confront the bear, the actors were filmed inside of a cage made of two layers of 20 mm thick bulletproof glass.

The film was shot on location in the areas of Hokkaido: Niseko, Kimobetsu, Rankoshi, Sōbetsu, Japan Air System, Hotel Sun Palace, Niseko Ikoi Village, Niseko Higashiyama Prince Hotel, Hokkaido Wine, Kyokushinkaikan Takagi Dojo, Showa Shinzan Bear Farm, and Gozaisho Ropeway.

Read on Wikipedia · Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Data from Wikidata.

Recommended