The Choice of Hercules
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- Runtime
- 130 mins
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.
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
- Koji Yakusho
- Ryudo Uzaki
- Masatô Ibu
- Yûki Amami
- Kazuyoshi Kushida
- Osamu Shigematu
- Eisuke Sasai
- Kazuhiro Yamaji
- Makoto Fujita
- Kosuke Toyohara
- Kenichi Yajima
- Ken'ichi Endô
- Shunsuke Matsuoka
- Mansaku Ikeuchi
- Eugene Harada
- Masahiro Koumoto
- Tetsushi Tanaka
- Yutaro Mitsuoka
- Hideo Sakaki
- Norio Murata
- Sakae Kimura
- Kyôichi Furumoto
- Masato Nagamori
- Shunsaku Kudo
- Kenjirou Ishimaru
- Yoshiyoshi Arakawa
- Yukijiro Hotaru
- Yoji Tanaka
- Hiroshi Ohmori
- Meikyo Yamada
- Takao Handa
- Sanshō Shinsui
- Kippei Shiina
- Shion Machida
- Ryoko Shinohara
- Suzuki Matsuo
- Kansai Eto
- Shinji Takeda
- Kazuma Suzuki
- Masako Motai
- Akiko Kazami
- Kazuya Takahashi
- Kanehiro Ri
- Meiken Itô
- Seisuke Yamazaki
- Man Kato
Director
- Masato Harada
Producers
- Masato Hara
