Antarctica (1983)

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Antarctica (Original title: The Antarctica) is a 1983 Nippon Herald drama film,Directed by Kurahara Koreyoshi.

## Plot

In February 1933, the first wintering crew members were airlifted from Showa Station in Antarctica to the observation ship "Soya" to replace the second crew members by "Showa". However, due to unprecedented bad weather, the second members did not fly to Syowa Station and decided to cancel the second wintering. Ushioda and Ochi, the dog clerk, ate Captain Ozawa to fly the "Showa-go" to save the 15 dogs left at the base, but the full-blown "Soya" had no more. There was no power to stay in the Antarctic waters. In early summer, Shioda quit his job as a lecturer at Hokkaido University and embarked on an apology trip to visit the people who offered the Sakhalin dog. Among them was Asako, a girl who was angry and angry, "Why didn't you bring me back!" Ochi learns about Ushioda's apology trip and heads for Wakkanai. In Wakkanai, a bronze statue of 15 dogs was erected and the unveiling ceremony was held for contributing to the academic expedition. I found Ushioda among the people who gathered, and a foreign reporter asked a brash question. Ochi watches over Ushioda, who says with a sad expression, "I should have killed him with this hand." At that time, there was a tremendous battle for dogs to live in Antarctica. The battle began with getting out of the collar, and after a struggle, eight out of fifteen were free. Knowing that there is no food at the base, the dogs embark on a wandering journey in search of food. Dogs that attack seals in groups and dig up and eat small fish that can be seen in frozen ice blocks. Among them, dogs that slip while searching for prey and are swallowed by the ice sea, dogs that run like crazy and do not disappear to the ice field, the number of friends gradually decreases. Shiro, the leading dog, also breathed in the corpse of a whale that he remembered during his dog sledding expedition with Shioda and Ochi. In addition, Riki, the leader, is attacked by a killer whale and dies of luck. Meanwhile, Ushioda and Ochi, who learned from the news that the third wintering party would be organized, were willing to ask them to join the group. After arriving at Syowa Station by helicopter from Soya, they find dead dogs in chains and roar. The eyes of Ushioda and Ochi, who were cloudy in tears, suddenly caught two dogs on the hill. The two were Taro and Jiro. The two yell

## Cast

* Shigeru Kouyama
* Keiko Oginome
* Hatsunori Hasegawa
* Ken Takakura

## Staff

* directed by Kurahara Koreyoshi
* Screenplay Kurahara Koreyoshi Tatsuo Nogami Susumu Saji Toshiro Ishido
* Executive Producer Hisashi Hieda
* Planning Koretsugu Kurahara Masaru Kakutani
* Production Ko Furuoka Haruo Shikanai Kurahara Koreyoshi
* Chief Producer Tomohiro Kaiyama Juichi Tanaka
* Producer Tsuneyuki Morishima Koretsugu Kurahara
* Photograph Akira Shiizuka
* Second part photographer Masahiro Tanaka
* Art Hiroshi Tokuda
* Musics Vangelis
* Recording Kenichi Benitani Yasuo Hashimoto
* illumination Haruo Kawashima
* Edit Suzuki Akira
* assistant director Minoru Yamashita
* steel Takaaki Osumi
* Dog trainer Tadaomi Miya
* Production coordinator Shichiro Murakami
* Advisor Kazuo Kuroi Masato Hara

## Titles

* Antarctica (Japanese: 南極物語 Original Japanese release title)
* South Pole Story (Translated Japanese title)

## Awards

### 7th Japan Academy Prize (1984)

#### Nomination

 Topic Award Work Category / Actor Category

## Overview

### Commentary

It depicts the fight against the lives of the 15 Karafuto dogs that the Antarctic Research Expedition has been forced to leave behind in the Antarctic land due to bad weather, and the appearance of the observation team members. The script is co-written by Tatsuo Nogami of "Theatre of Life (1983)", Susumu Saji of "Color Zange (1983)", Yoshiro Ishido of "Dark Room", and Koreyoshi Kurahara of "The Glacier Fox THE FOX IN THE QUEST OF THE NORTHERN SUN". writing. Directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara of "The Gate of Youth Independence (1982)" and photographed by Akira Shiizuka of "Kitakitsune Monogatari THE FOX IN THE QUEST OF THE NORTHERN SUN".

## Production

The film took over three years to make. It was filmed at the northern tip of Hokkaidō. The dogs in the film were sired by Kuma, a Sakhalin from Furen and were born in Wakkanai, Hokkaidō, some footage was shot in Antarctica in the summer of 1982 using dog teams from Scott Base (New Zealand).

The film reportedly had a budget of $40 million.