Fireflies in the North
1984·Japan·124 min.
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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.
DirectorHideo Gosha
ScreenwriterKôji Takada
MusicMasaru Satô
CinematographyFujio Morita
CastTatsuya Nakadai·Shima Iwashita·Koichi Sato·Ai Saotome·Daisuke Ryû·Kunihiko Mitamura·Reiko Nakamura·Junko Takazawa
Original titleKita no hotaru