Fireflies in the North (1984)
北の螢
Set in the icy wilderness of Hokkaido during the early days of the Meiji era, where the brutal warden of Kabato Prison terrorizes convicts sentenced to forced labor to build the roads needed to open up the territory.
- Date of release
- 1984-09-01
- TMDB
- 5.6 / 10 (7)
- Runtime
- 2h 5m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Hideo Gosha
Casting
- Tatsuya Nakadai — Takeshi Tsukigata
- Shima Iwashita — Yu Nakamura
- Mikio Narita — Kido
- Mari Natsuki — Suma
- Reiko Nakamura — Hamagiku
- Junko Takazawa — Hanayakko
- Tetsuro Tamba — Ishikura
- Shigeru Tsuyuguchi — Oga
- Isao Natsuyagi — Kakumu
- Asao Koike — Yuhara
- Yû Hoshino — Roku
- Kozue Tanaka — Kinu
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