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The 1958 Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (Showa Station) inspired the 1983 hit film Antarctica, of which Eight Below is a remake. [3] [4] Eight Below adapts the events of the 1958 incident, moved forward to 1993. [5] In the 1958 event, 15 Sakhalin Husky sled dogs were abandoned when the expedition team was unable to return to the base.
Antarctica (南極物語, Nankyoku Monogatari, lit."South Pole Story") is a 1983 Japanese drama film directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara and starring Ken Takakura.Its plot centers on the 1958 ill-fated Japanese scientific expedition to the South Pole, its dramatic rescue from the severe weather conditions on the return journey, the relationship between the scientists and their loyal and hard ...
Statues of Taro and Jiro in Nagoya. The dogs' survival was a national news story at the time. Jiro continued working as a sled dog in Antarctica and died there in 1960; his remains were stuffed and moved to the National Science Museum of Japan, the same museum where Hachiko is displayed.
Timothy John Jarvis AM (born 7 May 1966) is an English and Australian [1] explorer, climber, author, environmental activist, and documentary filmmaker. He is best known for his numerous Antarctic expeditions, particularly his attempted Antarctic crossing in 1999 and the period recreations of historical treks by Sir Douglas Mawson and Sir Ernest Shackleton.
The eight freed dogs left the base and headed into the frozen wilderness of Antarctica to hunt for food. They soon turned to hunting for seals , penguins , and skuas for food, seeking shelter at night and during the harsh blizzards that hit the continent, and facing ongoing challenges that they never faced on their own before.
New research on Antarctica's rapidly melting Thwaites Glacier is providing some of the clearest insights yet into how the ice shelf is thinning from below. Scientists take a peek below Antarctica ...
Instead, the film featured only eight dogs: two Alaskan Malamutes named Buck and Shadow and six Siberian Huskies named Max, Old Jack, Maya, Dewey, Truman, and Shorty. [5] In 2011, TBS presented the TV drama, Nankyoku Tairiku, featuring Kimura Takuya. It tells the story of the 1957 Antarctica Expedition led by Japan and their Sakhalin Huskies. [33]
In fact is Eight Below (less) a continuation of Snow Dogs. But some of the Dogs used for Snow Dogs are still used for Eight Below, such as DJ, playing Demon in Snow Dogs and Max in Eight Below. But there are no further relations between these 2 films expect the mushing and the relation to huskies. -- ReneRomann 18:33, 25 February 2007 (UTC)