"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."
Tatsuya Nakadai
as Takeshi Tsukigata
Shima Iwashita
as Yu Nakamura
Koichi Sato
as Yakichi
Ai Saotome
as Setsu Furuya
Daisuke Ryū
as Nagakura
Kunihiko Mitamura
as Masaki
Reiko Nakamura
as Hamagiku
Junko Takazawa
as Hanayakko
Shunsuke Kariya
as
Hatsuo Yamaya
as Marutoku
Shirô Kimura
Arase
Masaya Nihei
as Tomosaburo Kumagai
Kinzō Sakura
Hiroshi Miyauchi
Happou Tsukitei
as Clothing company owner
Kyōichi Satō
Kai Ato
as Ryuzo
Ryumei Azuma
Toru Masuoka
as Gaiki
Masaharu Arikawa
Masataka Naruse
Yoshio Inaba
as Bessho
Yû Hoshino
Kumi Fujishima
Mineko Maruhira
Rin Tsunami
Ryuma Watanabe
Kissei Kumamoto
Tetsuro Tamba
as Ishikura
Mariko Takamori
Midori Tsukuba
Kozue Tanaka
Toshiko Arisugawa
Yû Ishihara
Katsuko Ōkawa
Tamaki Miyagawa
Toshimichi Takahashi
Satoshi Awabara
Daigaku Sekine
Shunji Sasaki
Seizō Fukumoto
Kuniomi Kitani
Tankurô
Shun Sugata
Yoshimi Tamura
Kôichi Yamamoto
Ryûji Tsubaki
Yûsuke Tsukasa
Jiro Shirai
Rantaro Mine
Shinichi Hori
Toshiyuki Kawabe
Seiichi Ehara
Minoru Inatsuki
Takashi Takemoto
Shunichi Nakajima
Isao Natsuyagi
as Kakumu
Asao Koike
as Yuhara
Masako Natsume
as Narrator (voice)
Mari Natsuki
as Suma
Mikio Narita
as Kido
Shigeru Tsuyuguchi
as Oga
Hideo Gosha
Director
Akira Shimizu
Assistant Director
Fujio Morita
Director of Photography
Yoshinobu Nishioka
Art Direction
Kenji Yamashita
Assistant Art Director
Yoshiaki Masuda
Lighting Technician
Teruhiko Arakawa
Sound Mixer
Kiyoshige Hirai
Sound Recordist
Masaru Satō
Original Music Composer
Isamu Ichida
Editor
Kōji Takada
Screenplay