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.
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
Takeshi Tsukigata
Shima Iwashita
Yu Nakamura
Koichi Sato
Yakichi
Ai Saotome
Setsu Furuya
Daisuke Ryū
Nagakura
Kunihiko Mitamura
Masaki
Reiko Nakamura
Hamagiku
Junko Takazawa
Hanayakko
Shunsuke Kariya
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.
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