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    Fireflies in the North

    125'

    1984-09-01

    5.6

    Drama

    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.

    DirectingHideo GoshaWritingKōji Takada

    Cast

    4

    Takeshi Tsukigata

    Tatsuya Nakadai

    3

    Yu Nakamura

    Shima Iwashita

    2

    Kido

    Mikio Narita

    2

    Suma

    Mari Natsuki

    1

    Hamagiku

    Reiko Nakamura

    1

    Hanayakko

    Junko Takazawa

    3

    Ishikura

    Tetsuro Tamba

    1

    Oga

    Shigeru Tsuyuguchi

    2

    Kakumu

    Isao Natsuyagi

    2

    Yuhara

    Asao Koike

    1

    Roku

    Yû Hoshino

    1

    Kinu

    Kozue Tanaka

    1

    Fumi

    Kumi Fujishima

    1

    Setsu Furuya

    Ai Saotome

    4

    Yakichi

    Koichi Sato

    2

    Nagakura

    Daisuke Ryū

    1

    Masaki

    Kunihiko Mitamura

    1

    Kogane

    Shunsuke Kariya

    2

    Marutoku

    Hatsuo Yamaya

    1

    Shirô Kimura

    1

    Arase

    1

    Tomosaburo Kumagai

    Masaya Nihei

    1

    Kinzō Sakura

    1

    Hiroshi Miyauchi

    1

    Clothing company owner

    Happou Tsukitei

    1

    Kyōichi Satō

    1

    Ryuzo

    Kai Ato

    1

    Ryumei Azuma

    1

    Gaiki

    Toru Masuoka

    1

    Masaharu Arikawa

    1

    Masataka Naruse

    1

    Bessho

    Yoshio Inaba

    1

    Mineko Maruhira

    1

    Rin Tsunami

    1

    Ryuma Watanabe

    1

    Kissei Kumamoto

    1

    Mariko Takamori

    1

    Midori Tsukuba

    1

    Toshiko Arisugawa

    1

    Yû Ishihara

    1

    Katsuko Ōkawa

    1

    Tamaki Miyagawa

    1

    Toshimichi Takahashi

    1

    Satoshi Awabara

    1

    Daigaku Sekine

    1

    Shunji Sasaki

    2

    Seizō Fukumoto

    1

    Kuniomi Kitani

    1

    Tankurô

    3

    Shun Sugata

    1

    Yoshimi Tamura

    1

    Kôichi Yamamoto

    1

    Ryûji Tsubaki

    1

    Yûsuke Tsukasa

    1

    Jiro Shirai

    1

    Rantaro Mine

    1

    Shinichi Hori

    1

    Toshiyuki Kawabe

    1

    Seiichi Ehara

    1

    Minoru Inatsuki

    1

    Takashi Takemoto

    1

    Shunichi Nakajima

    1

    Narrator (voice)

    Masako Natsume

    Details:

    • Budget: 0
    • Home page
    • Revenue: 0
    • List of countries:
      1. Japan
    • List of languages:
      1. Japanese
    • List of companies:
      1. Toei Company
      2. Haiyuza Eiga Hoso Company
    • Vote Count: 7
    • Popularity: 1.2203
    • Status: Released
    • Original title:北の螢

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