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Bookmark this pageFour Days of Snow and Blood (1989)
Director: Hideo Gosha
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Based on Kazuo Kasahara's book 226, Gosha's turgid and hopelessly undramatic movie reconstructs the failed military coup of 26 February 1936, when a group of emperor-worshipping army officers tried to overthrow the civilian government. Dozens of earlier Japanese movies have dealt with these events, but few have been so wrong-footed: Gosha devotes most of two hours to the political and ethical debates that followed the assassinations, pausing only to weep along with the officers' long-suffering wives. A wretched dog of a movie.Author: TR
Cast & crew
Director: Hideo Gosha
Producer: Yoshinobu Nishioka
Cast: Kenichi Hagiwara, Tomokazu Miura, Masahiro Motoki, Naoto Takenaka, Daisuke Ryu, Kaho Minami full cast
Duration: 114 mins
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