Fireflies in the North (Japanese: 北の螢, Hepburn: Kita no hotaru) is a 1984 Japanese film directed by Hideo Gosha.[1][2] The lead star is Tatsuya Nakadai.
| Fireflies in the North | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Hideo Gosha |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Fujiro Morita |
| Edited by | Isamu Ichida |
| Music by | Masaru Sato |
| Distributed by | Toei |
Release date |
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Running time | 125 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Plot edit
The film depicts the conflict between the prisoners forced to work as manpower of Hokkaido settlers and the administrators of the Kabato district as well as the love and hate of the women who gathered there during the Meiji era.[3][4][5][6]
Cast edit
- Tatsuya Nakadai as Takeshi Tsukigata
- Shima Iwashita as Yu Nakamura
- Mari Natsuki as Suma
- Isao Natsuyagi as Kakumu
- Kōichi Satō as Yakichi
- Kunihiko Mitamura as Denji Masaki
- Masanari Nihei as Kumagai
- Hiroshi Miyauchi as Unno
- Reiko Nakamura as Hamagiku
- Junko Takazawa
- Shunsuke Kariya as Tsuyoshi
- Arase Nagahide as Yoshida Susumu
- Naruse Tadashi as Nakajima Senkichi
- Hatsuo Yamane as Marutoku
- Kai Atō as Ryuzo
- Seizo Fukumoto
- Arase Nagahide as Susumu Yoshida
- Toru Masuoka as Kanda
- Ai Saotome as Setsu Furuya
- Yoshio Inaba as Besho Ken
- Daisuke Ryu as Nagakura Shinpachi
- Asao Koike as Yuhara Tadayoshi
- Tetsuro Tamba as Ishikura
- Mikio Narita as Kanbei kido
- Shigeru Tsuyuguchi as Kōnoshin Oga
Production edit
- Yoshinobu Nishioka - Art direction
References edit
- ^ "北の螢". kotobank. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
- ^ "北の螢". 般社団法人 日本映画製作者連盟. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
- ^ 「『日本映画批評』北の螢 -西脇英夫」、『キネマ旬報』1984年9月下旬号、 28頁。,
- ^ ぴあシネマクラブ 邦画編 1998-1999』 ぴあ、1998年、215頁。ISBN 4-89215-904-2
- ^ "北の螢". Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
- ^ "北の螢". Kinema Junpo. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
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