On the Hokkaido frontier, a war veteran and Ainu girl race against misfits and military renegades to find treasure mapped out on tattooed outlaws.
Practical Effects
Bear attacks done with actual trained animals, not CGI
Costume
Painstaking Ainu embroidery and Meiji-era military accuracy
Acting
Yamazaki's thousand-yard stare vs Yamada's feral energy
Director
Shigeaki Kubo
Kento Yamazaki
Saichi Sugimoto
Anna Yamada
Asirpa
Gordon Maeda
Hyakunosuke Ogata
Asuka Kudo
Hajime Tsukishima
Shuntaro Yanagi
Yohei Nikaido / Kohei Nikaido
Yuki Izumisawa
Toraji Kenmochi
Yuma Yamoto
Yoshitake Shiraishi
Ryohei Otani
Genjiro Tanigaki
Katsuya
Tatsuuma Ushiyama
Mitsuki Takahata
Umeko
Katsumi Kiba
Shinpachi Nagakura
Hisako Ôkata
Huci
Makita Sports
Takechiyo Goto
Arata Iura
Aca
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The production consulted Ainu elders for language accuracy; lead actress Anna Yamada spent months learning traditional embroidery and mouth harp technique.
Director Shigeaki Kubo insisted on filming in actual Hokkaido blizzards; the 'immortal' bear attack scene required 23 takes because the animal kept acting too friendly.
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