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.
Language
Japanese
Release Date
September 1, 1984
Cast
Tatsuya Nakadai
Takeshi Tsukigata
Shima Iwashita
Yu Nakamura
Koichi Sato
Yakichi
Ai Saotome
Setsu Furuya
Daisuke Ryū
Nagakura
Kunihiko Mitamura
Masaki
Reiko Nakamura
Hamagiku
Junko Takazawa
Hanayakko
Shunsuke Kariya
Hatsuo Yamaya
Marutoku
Shirô Kimura
Arase
Masaya Nihei
Tomosaburo Kumagai
Kinzō Sakura
Hiroshi Miyauchi
Happou Tsukitei
Clothing company owner
Kyōichi Satō
Kai Ato
Ryuzo
Ryumei Azuma
Toru Masuoka
Gaiki
Masaharu Arikawa
Masataka Naruse
Yoshio Inaba
Bessho
Yû Hoshino
Kumi Fujishima
Mineko Maruhira
Rin Tsunami
Ryuma Watanabe
Yoshinari Sumimoto
Tetsurō Tamba
Ishikura
Mariko Takamori
Midori Tsukuba
Kozue Tanaka
Toshiko Arisugawa
Yû Ishihara
Katsuko Ōkawa
Tamaki Miyagawa
Toshimichi Takahashi
Satoshi Awabara
Daigaku Sekine
Shunji Sasaki
Seizō Fukumoto
Kuniomi Kitani
Tankurô
Shun Sugata
Yoshimi Tamura
Kôichi Yamamoto
Ryûji Tsubaki
Yûsuke Tsukasa
Jiro Shirai
Rantaro Mine
Shinichi Hori
Toshiyuki Kawabe
Seiichi Ehara
Minoru Inatsuki
Takashi Takemoto
Shunichi Nakajima
Isao Natsuyagi
Kakumu
Asao Koike
Yuhara
Masako Natsume
Narrator (voice)
Mari Natsuki
Suma
Mikio Narita
Kido
Shigeru Tsuyuguchi
Oga
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