Aug 08, 2009
125 min
Full-HD

The Chef of South Polar (2009)

When eight men are assigned to live 14,000 kilometers from home in inhumanly cold conditions, food becomes their new existence.

Category

Drama Comedy

Country

Japan

Companies

Bandai Visual The Asahi Shimbun Tokyo Theatres Company Pony Canyon Eisei Gekijo Kansai Television Anaheim Entertainment T. Y. Limited Yahoo! Japan

Masato Sakai

Jun Nishimura

Katsuhisa Namase

Mr. Moto

Kitaro

Taicho

Kengo Kora

Brother Yan

Kosuke Toyohara

Doctor

Naomi Nishida

Miyuki

Kanji Furutachi

Pastor

Daisuke Kuroda

Bon

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