Ken Watanabe, a young man from Tokyo, comes to the great plains of Rumo, Hokkaido to see his hometown with his own eyes. Ken, who was entangled in this land's boss Samejima and collapsed, was rescued by Shingo Kazama, a mountain man who works at the quarry. Samejima, who doesn't like Shingo, tries to interfere with Shingo's work...
Cinematography
Hokkaido landscapes shot like American Western fever dream
Acting
Yūjirō Ishihara's smolder could melt actual glaciers
Director
Toshio Masuda
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Nikkatsu's 'borderless action' wave, smuggling Hollywood Western tropes into Japanese studio formulas. Masuda later directed Tora! Tora! Tora!
Yūjirō Ishihara was Japan's biggest star—think Elvis meets Brando—and this role as stoic quarry worker was deliberate image-stretching.
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