The Choice of Hercules (2002)
Drama · Action · Crime
Overview
When radicals from Japan's Red Army took a woman hostage in the resort town of Karuizawa, Nagano in 1972, Officer Atsuyuki Sassa was put in charge of diffusing the situation. But the task had its challenges. Upon arriving in mountainous Nagano, Sassa had to compete with freezing winter temperatures, conflicting opinions between the Tokyo Metropolitan Police and the Nagano Prefectural Police, as well as public opinion to gain entrance to the lodge that held the single woman captive.
Cast
- Koji Yakusho as Atsuyuki Sassa
- Ryudo Uzaki as Shinichi Udagawa
- Masatô Ibu as Chief Constable Noma
- Yuki Amami as Sachiko Sassa
- Kazuyoshi Kushida
- Osamu Shigematu
- Eisuke Sasai as Hyodo
- Kazuhiro Yamaji
- Makoto Fujita as Commissioner-General Gotoda
- Kosuke Toyohara