Film
Karafuto 1945 Summer
1974 · 1h 59m · Drama · War · History
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Overview
The film is set in Karafuto after the radio broadcast of the Imperial Rescript on the Termination of the War. On August 15, 1945, Soviet forces invaded Karafuto. On August 20, the postal telegraph office in Maoka suspended operations and nine of the twelve telephone operators committed suicide by taking potassium cyanide while the city was being invaded.
Cast
Terumi Niki
Ritsuko Sekine
Keiko Torii
Nobue Fujikura
Kawai Okada
Natsuko Saito
Yumiko Fujita
Ayako Sakamoto
Hiromi Kurita
Midori Kiuchi
Sanae Kitahara
Go Wakabayashi
Toshio Kurosawa
Yōko Minamida
Minoru Chiaki
Shinichirō Mikami
Jūkei Fujioka
Akira Kume
Tetsuro Tamba
Takahiro Tamura
Crew
- Mitsuo MurayamaDirector
- Takeo KunihiroWriter
- Toshio KanekoNovel
- Seitaro OmoriOriginal Music Composer
Media
Details
- Release date
- August 17, 1974
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 1h 59m
- Genres
- Drama, War, History
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