Mount Hakkoda (2014)

Mount Hakkoda 2014 / ドキュメンタリー八甲田山 2014 / Documentary Mount Hakkoda , Mount Hakkoda The Worst Mountaineering Disaster , Documentary Hakkodasan Sekai Saidai no Sangaku Sonan Jiko , ドキュメンタリー八甲田山世界最大の山岳遭難事故 , Documentary Hakkodasan

In 1902 on the eve of the Russo-Japanese War, Imperial Japanese Army soldiers set off on a snowbound marching expedition through the Hakkoda Mountains in Aomori Prefecture. However, a massive cold wave, the worst in several centuries, generated unpredictably harsh weather conditions, and the expedition lost its way. The result was a mountaineering catastrophe that took the lives of 199 soldiers... (Source: JFDB) ~~ Based on Ogawasawara Koshu's (小笠原 孤酒) novel ‟Hakkoda Renho Fubuki no Sangeki (八甲田連峰吹雪の惨劇)‟ ~~ Japan-Italy Co-Produced.