The Choice of Hercules

2h 10m

Drama Action Crime

8

When radicals from Japan's Red Army took a woman hostage in the resort town of Karuizawa, Nagano in 1972, Officer Atsuyuki Sassa was put in charge of diffusing the situation. But the task had its challenges. Upon arriving in mountainous Nagano, Sassa had to compete with freezing winter temperatures, conflicting opinions between the Tokyo Metropolitan Police and the Nagano Prefectural Police, as well as public opinion to gain entrance to the lodge that held the single woman captive.

Cast

Shinichi Udagawa

Chief Constable Noma

Kazuyoshi Kushida

Osamu Shigematu

Kazuhiro Yamaji

Commissioner-General Gotoda

Kosuke Toyohara

Shunsuke Matsuoka

Mansaku Ikeuchi

Masahiro Komoto

Tetsushi Tanaka

Yutaro Mitsuoka

ホトケのトミさん

Kyôichi Furumoto

Masato Nagamori

Kenjirou Ishimaru

Yoshiyoshi Arakawa

Yukijiro Hotaru

Sanshō Shinsui

Ryoko Shinohara

Kazuya Takahashi

Itô - Assistant Police Inspector

Seisuke Yamazaki

Crew

Director, Writer

Yoshitaka Sakamoto

Director of Photography

Production Design