The Choice of Hercules (2002)

• Drama
• Action
• Crime

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.

Rating

7.2 / 10 (8 votes)

Release date

May 11, 2002

Runtime

2h 10m

Language

Japanese

Director

Masato Harada

Status

Released