Title: 八甲田山 Romaji : Hakkoda-san Title (English): Mount Hakkoda Director: Shirō Moritani Writer: Shinobu Hashimoto, Yoshitarō Nomura, Tomoyuki Tanaka Producer: Shinobu Hashimoto Cinematographer: Daisaku Kimura Release Date: June 04, 1977 Runtime: 169 min. Genre: War Language: Japanese Country: Japan **Plot** Mt. Hakkoda (八甲田山 Hakkōda-san) 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 Mt. Hakkoda 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. **Cast** Shōgo Shimada as General Tomoda Ken Takakura as Captain Tokushima Hideji Otaki as Colonel Nakabayashi Kin'ya Kitaōji as Captain Kanda Tetsurō Tanba as Colonel Kojima Rentarō Mikuni as Major Yamada Komaki Kurihara as Hatsuko Kanda (Captain Kanda's wife) Akira Hamada as Lieutenant Tanabe Mariko Kaga as Taeko Tokushima (Captain Tokushima's wife) Yuzo Kayama as Captain Kurata Kumiko Akiyoshi as Sawa Takiguchi (Guide) Kenichi Kato as Second Lieutenant Takahata Ren Ebata as Apprentice officer Funayama Kohei Takayama as Apprentice officer Nagao