Film

Heat Wave Island

1969 · 1h 44m · Mystery · Drama

IMDb

7.5

Nobuko Otowa plays a former Seto Inland Sea island farmer who has moved to the mainland in order to find work, but instead ends up dead. The film begins with the discovery of her corpse, which leads to an investigation that uncovers the narcotics, prostitution, and murder in which many poor farmers had found themselves trapped after World War II.

Nobuko Otowa

Otoyo

Jūzō Itami

Iino

Daigo Kusano

Tsuda

Ichirō Sugai

Tanie Kitabayashi

Hisano Yamaoka

Masanobu Oki

Mika Matsui

Jūkichi Uno

Eitarō Ozawa

Rika Mizuki

Ken Yoshizawa

Hideo Kanze

Rokkō Toura

Taiji Tonoyama

Tsutomu Akashi

• Kaneto ShindōDirector · Screenplay
• Kazuo KuwaharaProducer
• Hisao ItoyaProducer
• Setsuo NotoProducer
• Kiyomi KurodaDirector of Photography
• Hikaru HayashiOriginal Music Composer

Release date

October 29, 1969

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 44m

Genres

Mystery, Drama