The Choice of Hercules (2002)
Drama • Action • Crime • 2ч 10м
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.
TMDB rating:
7.6
(7)
Cast
Koji Yakusho
Atsuyuki Sassa
Ryudo Uzaki
Shinichi Udagawa
Masatô Ibu
Chief Constable Noma
Yuki Amami
Sachiko Sassa
Kazuyoshi Kushida
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Osamu Shigematu
Eisuke Sasai
Hyodo
Kazuhiro Yamaji
Makoto Fujita
Commissioner-General Gotoda
Kosuke Toyohara
Kenichi Yajima
Kenichi Endo
Shunsuke Matsuoka
Mansaku Ikeuchi
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Eugene Harada
Masahiro Komoto
Tetsushi Tanaka
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Yutaro Mitsuoka
Hideo Sakaki
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Norio Murata
ホトケのトミさん
Sakae Kimura
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Kyoichi Furumoto
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Masato Nagamori
Shunsaku Kudo
Crew
Masato Harada
Director
Masato Hara
Producer
Soichi Ueno
Editor
Yoshitaka Sakamoto
Director of Photography
Kyōko Heya
Production Design
Takatsugu Muramatsu
Original Music Composer
Masato Harada
Screenplay
Atsuyuki Sassa
Book
Hisao Nabeshima
Producer
Kazuya Hamana
Producer
鈴木基之
Producer
貝原正行
Co-Producer
Gen Kobayashi
Assistant Camera
Yukio Yuzawa
Set Decoration
Jun Nakamura
Sound Recordist
Kenji Shibasaki
Sound Effects
Takeshi Okubo
Gaffer
Toshihide Yamada
Associate Producer
Kimio Kataoka
Line Producer
梶野祐司
Line Producer
助監督
Assistant Director
Hideaki Murakami
Assistant Director
牧野千恵子
Script Supervisor
加藤義一
Still Photographer
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