Fireflies in the North
Set in the icy wilderness of Hokkaido during the early days of the Meiji era, where the brutal warden of Kabato Prison terrorizes convicts sentenced to forced labor to build the roads needed to open up the territory.
Release Date
September 1, 1984Runtime
125 minGenres
DramaDirected by
Hideo Gosha, Akira ShimizuWritten by
Kōji TakadaLanguage
JapaneseBudget
$0Revenue
$0Status
Released![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/jaHbkAd9cA4EhIP49adGXypFSBX.jpg)
Cast
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/4LygOe0vFQplLIft5IUWI5OewPX.jpg)
Tatsuya Nakadai
Takeshi Tsukigata![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/rW0pj69GsEQoQjeYt5WdX7bPxYP.jpg)
Shima Iwashita
Yu Nakamura![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/zElHg4M5VF5RHQyZwUWN9NWEkih.jpg)
Koichi Sato
Yakichi![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/nAGS0nJ1Etk7Ff4BsuzxXw1m9Je.jpg)
Ai Saotome
Setsu Furuya![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/dRPberqnxaxmNKAehZT6xXhEsWY.jpg)
Daisuke Ryū
Nagakura![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/7XUSLZZKI7sQNab1KeQL0y2f9uQ.jpg)
Kunihiko Mitamura
Masaki![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/hqSff2SCh9hFUjlwNOjut4exsWm.jpg)
Reiko Nakamura
Hamagiku![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/8bIitcQejW4gGwPXLiaDzQpJnVS.jpg)
Junko Takazawa
Hanayakko![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/w0gXYeiun7InjOArQ9dCzQF50nc.jpg)
Shunsuke Kariya
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/bRwjfh80Pok32QRZIUpjRwTdExH.jpg)
Hatsuo Yamaya
Marutoku![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/qVxSEH1H1UfQhxfnEjIkCCORmHT.jpg)
Masaya Nihei
Tomosaburo Kumagai![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/yRAcj6MIgdsrSM7KyR3iEykdURb.jpg)
Kinzō Sakura
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/ql1yLisbPylkfmwxID07YwpdNv1.jpg)
Hiroshi Miyauchi
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/3PrzHdnpc50bU9DEb1EUhlgOlEo.jpg)
Kyōichi Satō
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/gEaiCock4kuUfyndeUGm0ymimFl.jpg)
Kai Ato
Ryuzo![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/rvgRRIsXvWylqXHDWnffXay2iCK.jpg)
Toru Masuoka
Gaiki![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/5b2H34IgS1dVKjpriHRYdyhMjk9.jpg)
Masaharu Arikawa
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/5EzztwxxXhBeAyrCx47stP0c91I.jpg)
Masataka Naruse
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/5qIAqM5PegWTNq67qNofz78fb6U.jpg)
Yoshio Inaba
Bessho![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/ihugQ2afio03fcKSGXdkcQKTVmt.jpg)
Tetsurō Tamba
Ishikura![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/zSgeEKCkHwFRkcD3k0UbRtUKfhN.jpg)
Kozue Tanaka
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/82WnZRUP0cljgdS8AB7SO9W3ts2.jpg)
Katsuko Ōkawa
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/zOLLNyyuLiwAYO6Y58bBrOdshrq.jpg)
Shunji Sasaki
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/id6WOj9BO1cd7XsUsPeZp58HlGx.jpg)
Seizō Fukumoto
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/eH3v9Vm0zt7AZjtEzVcNr6GJZhk.jpg)
Kuniomi Kitani
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/iBy21Xet3OF6ULl9iQnT4s70FHT.jpg)
Shun Sugata
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/xSQzuWshFAHPcYFILonAmrIlL78.jpg)
Kôichi Yamamoto
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/qOfX2UcFgUestGUy5Mii3wiuxoD.jpg)
Jiro Shirai
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/ijjqgeXNxtzbPFrtsX2ZXQheFY0.jpg)
Isao Natsuyagi
Kakumu![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/te4QpAxwu4PU5ihfxAuayu0CSPj.jpg)
Asao Koike
Yuhara![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/xzS0qJFftoxuwKAAhhOyXXasHij.jpg)
Masako Natsume
Narrator (voice)![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/aRs3dGqA2bCuGSZ7lJGhQKe8rhp.jpg)
Mari Natsuki
Suma![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/g9PEmxv4F0GxKjTx7ARwGLcxSOo.jpg)
Mikio Narita
Kido![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/9VvzW68ZYtiHvftWpZyxg1PYXC7.jpg)
Shigeru Tsuyuguchi
Oga