Movielogr
Karafuto 1945 Summer (1974)
Directed by Mitsuo Murayama
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.
Length 119 minutes
Actors
Terumi Niki | Keiko Torii | Kawai Okada | Yumiko Fujita | Hiromi Kurita | Midori Kiuchi | Sanae Kitahara | Go Wakabayashi | Toshio Kurosawa | Yôko Minamida | Minoru Chiaki | Shinichirô Mikami | Jûkei Fujioka | Akira Kume | Tetsurō Tamba | Takahiro Tamura | Shôgo Shimada | Keiko Nomura | Nishiki Imadegawa | Kaoru Kiryû