--- title: 'Mount Hakkoda (1977)' type: 'film' director: 'Shirō Moritani' released: '1977-06-04' genres: - 'Drama' countries: - 'Japan' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/mount-hakkoda-1977' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0203549/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Mount Hakkoda (1977) 1977 · Drama · Japan Original title: 八甲田山 ## Synopsis Mt. Hakkoda is a 1977 Japanese film directed by Shirō Moritani. Based on the novelist Jirō Nitta's recounting of the Hakkōda Mountains incident, the film tells the story of two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army, consisting of 210 men, that tried to traverse the Hakkōda Mountains in the winter of 1902, in preparation for the anticipated Russo-Japanese War. The film was Japan's submission to the 50th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee. ## Credits - **Director:** [Shirō Moritani](https://cinepixo.com/people/shiro-moritani) - **Screenplay:** [Shinobu Hashimoto](https://cinepixo.com/people/shinobu-hashimoto), [Jirō Nitta](https://cinepixo.com/people/jiro-nitta) - **Original Music Composer:** [Yasushi Akutagawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/yasushi-akutagawa) - **Director of Photography:** [Daisaku Kimura](https://cinepixo.com/people/daisaku-kimura) ## Cast - [Tetsurō Tamba](https://cinepixo.com/people/tetsuro-tamba) - [Yūzō Kayama](https://cinepixo.com/people/yuzo-kayama) - [Kumiko Akiyoshi](https://cinepixo.com/people/kumiko-akiyoshi) - [Komaki Kurihara](https://cinepixo.com/people/komaki-kurihara) - [Ken Takakura](https://cinepixo.com/people/ken-takakura) - [Rentarō Mikuni](https://cinepixo.com/people/rentaro-mikuni) - [Kin'ya Kitaōji](https://cinepixo.com/people/kin-ya-kitaoji) - [Shōgo Shimada](https://cinepixo.com/people/shogo-shimada) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/mount-hakkoda-1977 Film facts: Wikidata (Q740703); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.