Mount Hakkoda (1977 film)

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Mount Hakkōda is a 1977 Japanese film directed by Shirō Moritani. It’s based on Jirō Nitta’s account of the Hakkōda incident and tells the story of two Imperial Japanese Army infantry regiments, totaling 210 men, who try to cross the Hakkōda Mountains in the winter of 1902 as they prepare for the Russo-Japanese War. The film, in Japanese, runs 169 minutes. It was Japan’s entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 50th Academy Awards, but it did not receive a nomination.