Documentary hakkodasan sekai saidai no sangaku sonan jiko
MOUNT HAKKODA The worst mountaineering disaster
- Release Date
- April, 26th, 2014
- Running Time
- 88 min
- Genre
- Documentary
- Color
- Color
- Screening Format
- Blu-ray,DVD,HDCAM
- Screening Format with Subtitles
- English (Blu-ray,DVD,HDCAM)
[ Directed by ]
[ Produced by ]
[ Cast ]
- ARAI Takahito ── KANNARI Bunkichi
- KAWADA Seiji ── YAMAGUCHI Shin
- SATO Yuma ── OBARA Chuzaburo
[ Staff ]
- OGASAWARA Koshu ── Original Story
- MIYATA Satoshi ── Screenplay
- OGUSHI Masaaki ── Cinematography
- TAKAHASHI Chikuzan ── Music
- TANUMA Katsuhiko ── Production Design
[ Production Company ]
5network
[ Distributor (Japan) ]
5network
[ Story ]
A documentary about the Hakkoda Mountains disaster that claimed the lives of numerous Imperial Japanese Army soldiers on a marching expedition, which later inspired the movie Mount Hakkoda. Based on the non-fiction novel "Hakkoda Renho Fubuki no Sangeki" (A Tragic Blizzard in the Hakkoda Mountains) by Ogawasawara Koshu, it uses a mix of dramatic recreations and interviews with survivors to tell the full story.
In 1902 on the eve of the Russo-Japanese War, Imperial Japanese Army soldiers set off on a snowbound marching expedition through the Hakkoda Mountains in Aomori Prefecture. However, a massive cold wave, the worst in several centuries, generated unpredictably harsh weather conditions, and the expedition lost its way. The result was a mountaineering catastrophe that took the lives of 199 soldiers...
[ Official Site ]
[ Film Festivals, Awards ]
2014 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
2014 International Documentary Festival Sheffield
2014 International Film Festival Locarno
2014 Sundance Film Festival
2014 Los Angels International Film Festival
2014 AFI docs Documentary Festival
2014 Montreal World Film Festival
2014 Mar del Plata Film Festival
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