Movielogr
The Choice of Hercules (2002)
Directed by Masato Harada
Overview
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.
Length 130 minutes
Actors
Koji Yakusho | Ryûdô Uzaki | Masatō Ibu | Yuki 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 Komoto | Tetsushi Tanaka | Yutaro Mitsuoka | Hideo Sakaki | Murata Norio | Sakae Kimura | Kyôichi Furumoto | Masato Nagamori | Shunsaku Kudo | Kenjiro Ishimaru | YosiYosi Arakawa | Yukijiro Hotaru | Yoji Tanaka | Hiroshi Ohmori | Meikyô Yamada | Takao Handa | Sanshô Shinsui | Kippei Shiina | Shion Machida | Ryoko Shinohara | Suzuki Matsuo | Kansai Eto | Shinji Takeda | Kazuma Suzuki | Masako Motai | Akiko Kazami | Kazuya Takahashi | Hiroshi Sakuma | Meiken Itô | Seisuke Yamazaki | Man Kato