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The Choice of Hercules (2002)
Directed by Masato Harada
Drama, Action, Crime · 2h 10m
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
Yuki Amami
Kazuyoshi Kushida
Eisuke Sasai
Kazuhiro Yamaji
Makoto Fujita
Kosuke Toyohara
Kenichi Yajima
Kenichi Endo
Crew
- Director
- Masato Harada
- Screenplay
- Masato Harada
- Director of Photography
- Yoshitaka Sakamoto
- Original Music Composer
- Takatsugu Muramatsu
- Editor
- Soichi Ueno
- Producer
- Masato Hara, Hisao Nabeshima, Kazuya Hamana, 鈴木基之
Details
- Original title
- 突入せよ！「あさま山荘」事件
- Release date
- 2002-05-11
- Runtime
- 2h 10m
- Genres
- Drama, Action, Crime
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Toei Company, Asmik Ace Entertainment