北の螢
/
La luciole du nord
/
北之萤
/
Kita no hotaru
/
北之螢
director:
Hideo Gosha
playwright:
Kōji Takada
actor:
The Snake
/
Shima Iwashita
/
Koichi Sato
/
早乙女爱
/
Daisuke Ryū
…
genre:
Drama
region:
Japan
language:
Japanese
length: 2h 5m
release date: 1984-09-01
IMDb: tt0459867
北の螢
overview
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.