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.
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| Directing | Masato Harada | Director |
| Production | Masato Hara | Producer |
| Editing | Soichi Ueno | Editor |
| Camera | Yoshitaka Sakamoto | Director of Photography |
| Art | Kyōko Heya | Production Design |
| Sound | Takatsugu Muramatsu | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Masato Harada | Screenplay |
| Writing | Atsuyuki Sassa | Book |
| Production | Hisao Nabeshima | Producer |
| Production | Kazuya Hamana | Producer |
| Production | 鈴木基之 | Producer |
| Production | 貝原正行 | Co-Producer |
| Camera | Gen Kobayashi | Assistant Camera |
| Art | Yukio Yuzawa | Set Decoration |
| Sound | Jun Nakamura | Sound Recordist |
| Sound | Kenji Shibasaki | Sound Effects |
| Lighting | Takeshi Okubo | Gaffer |
| Production | Toshihide Yamada | Associate Producer |
| Production | Kimio Kataoka | Line Producer |
| Production | 梶野祐司 | Line Producer |
| Directing | 助監督 | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Hideaki Murakami | Assistant Director |
| Directing | 牧野千恵子 | Script Supervisor |
| Camera | 加藤義一 | Still Photographer |