Fireflies in the North

2h 5m

5.3

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.

Cast

Tatsuya Nakadai

Takeshi Tsukigata

Kunihiko Mitamura

Shunsuke Kariya

Tomosaburo Kumagai

Hiroshi Miyauchi

Happou Tsukitei

Clothing company owner

Masaharu Arikawa

Masataka Naruse

Mineko Maruhira

Kissei Kumamoto

Mariko Takamori

Toshiko Arisugawa

Tamaki Miyagawa

Toshimichi Takahashi

Satoshi Awabara

Seizō Fukumoto

Kôichi Yamamoto

Yûsuke Tsukasa

Toshiyuki Kawabe

Minoru Inatsuki

Takashi Takemoto

Shunichi Nakajima

Narrator (voice)

Shigeru Tsuyuguchi

Crew

Director of Photography

Assistant Director

Kenji Yamashita

Assistant Art Director

Teruhiko Arakawa

Kiyoshige Hirai

Sound Recordist

Yoshiaki Masuda

Lighting Technician

Original Music Composer

Yoshinobu Nishioka