Karafuto 1945 Summer

• 8.5 Drama
• 1974-08-17
• 119 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

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 () Yôko Minamida ()

Director:

Mitsuo Murayama

Writer:

Takeo Kunihiro