Fireflies in the North
1984 · Movie · 124 min. · Japan
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.
Direction Hideo Gosha
Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Shima Iwashita · Koichi Sato · Ai Saotome · Daisuke Ryû · Kunihiko Mitamura · Reiko Nakamura · Junko Takazawa
Soundtrack Masaru Satô
Screenplay Kôji Takada
Cinematography Fujio Morita
Original title Kita no hotaru
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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