Hikarigoke

[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.

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極寒と飢餓の極限状態―その時何が起きたのか? 戦時中、実際に起こった人肉食事件を基に描かれた武田泰淳の同名短編小説をの社会派・熊井啓監督が映画化した衝撃作がHDニューマスターで登場! 鬼気迫る演技で観る者を圧倒する船長役の三國連太郎、他にも熊井監督の常連・奥田瑛二、田中邦衛、笠智衆、杉本哲太ら豪華キャスト。撮影の栃沢正夫、音楽の松村禎三、美術の木村威夫ら、第一線で活躍する熊井組のスタッフが集結。――1943年、太平洋戦争中。陸軍の軍需物資を積んだ船団の一隻が座礁、4人の船員は北海道・知床半島の洞窟へと漂着する。厳冬期の知床、想像を絶する寒さと飢えの極限の中、洞窟内でいったい何が起こったのか。ただひとり、生還した船長は、当時英雄として迎えられるも、数か月後にバラバラの人骨と衣服が納められた箱が発見されてから、事態は一変する。ブックレット(16P予定)封入。