Fireflies in the North (1984)
2h 5m
Running Time
September 1, 1984Release Date
Fireflies in the North (1984)
2h 5m
Running Time
September 1, 1984Release Date
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Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.

Tatsuya Nakadai
Takeshi Tsukigata

Shima Iwashita
Yu Nakamura

Koichi Sato
Yakichi

Ai Saotome
Setsu Furuya

Daisuke Ryū
Nagakura

Kunihiko Mitamura
Masaki

Reiko Nakamura
Hamagiku

Junko Takazawa
Hanayakko

Shunsuke Kariya

Hatsuo Yamaya
Marutoku

Shirô Kimura

Masaya Nihei
Tomosaburo Kumagai

Takeshi Endô
Producer

Kazuyuki Satô
Producer

Happou Tsukitei
Clothing company owner

Kai Ato
Ryuzo

Toru Masuoka
Gaiki

Masao Satô
ProductionDesigner

Yoshio Inaba
Bessho

Tetsuro Tamba
Ishikura

Isao Natsuyagi
Kakumu

Asao Koike
Yuhara

Masako Natsume
Narrator (voice)

Mari Natsuki
Suma

Mikio Narita
Kido

Shigeru Tsuyuguchi
Oga

Kōji Takada
Writer

Hideo Gosha
Director

Akira Shimizu
Assistant Director

Yoshinobu Nishioka
Art Direction

Teruhiko Arakawa
Sound Mixer

Isamu Ichida
Editor

Kenji Yamashita
Assistant Art Director

Masaru Satō
Original Music Composer

Fujio Morita
Director of Photography

Kiyoshige Hirai
Sound Recordist

Yoshiaki Masuda
Lighting Technician

Daigaku Sekine

Shunji Sasaki

Tankurô

Shun Sugata

Minoru Inatsuki

Toshimichi Takahashi

Tamaki Miyagawa

Yû Hoshino

Yoshimi Tamura

Kôichi Yamamoto

Rin Tsunami

Masaharu Arikawa

Seizō Fukumoto

Kuniomi Kitani

Takashi Takemoto

Shunichi Nakajima

Mineko Maruhira

Kumi Fujishima

Masataka Naruse

Yûsuke Tsukasa

Ryûji Tsubaki

Midori Tsukuba

Mariko Takamori

Yoshinari Sumimoto

Ryuma Watanabe

Ryumei Azuma

Kyōichi Satō
Media.


Details.
Release DateSeptember 1, 1984
Original Name北の螢
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 5m
Genres
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Wiki.
Fireflies in the North (Japanese: 北の螢, Hepburn: Kita no hotaru) is a 1984 Japanese film directed by Hideo Gosha. The lead star is Tatsuya Nakadai.
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