¡Hikarigoke
¡Japanese Movie
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[Machine Translation] Extreme conditions of extreme cold and starvation - what happened then? Based on a wartime cannibalism incident of the same title by Yasuhiro Takeda, Kei Kumai, a socially-conscious director, has brought this shocking work to the screen in its HD New Master version! The film features a splendid cast including Rentaro Mikuni as the sea captain who overwhelms the viewer with his ghoulish performance, and Kumai's regulars Eiji Okuda, Kunie Tanaka, Chishu Kasasa, Tetta Sugimoto, and many more. The Kumai crew, active at the forefront of filming, includes Masao Tochizawa for cinematography, Teizo Matsumura for music, and Takeo Kimura for art direction. -1943, during the Pacific War. One of the ships in a convoy carrying army supplies runs aground, and four sailors are washed ashore in a cave on the Shiretoko Peninsula in Hokkaido. What exactly happened in the cave in Shiretoko during the harsh winter, in the midst of unimaginably cold weather and extreme hunger? The captain, the only one to survive, is hailed as a hero at the time, but things change drastically when a box containing dismembered human bones and clothes is discovered several months later. A booklet (16 pages) is included.
Original Release Year: 1992
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