Karafuto 1945 Summer (1974)
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.
Director: Mitsuo Murayama
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Terumi Niki as Ritsuko Sekine |
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Keiko Torii as Nobue Fujikura |
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Kawai Okada as Natsuko Saito |
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Yumiko Fujita as Ayako Sakamoto |
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Hiromi Kurita as |
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Midori Kiuchi as |
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Sanae Kitahara as |
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Go Wakabayashi as |
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Toshio Kurosawa as |
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Yōko Minamida as |
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Minoru Chiaki as |
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Shinichirō Mikami as |
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Jūkei Fujioka as |
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Akira Kume as |
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Tetsuro Tamba as |
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Takahiro Tamura as |
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Shōgo Shimada as |
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Keiko Nomura as Yumi Sihida |
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Nishiki Imadegawa as Keiko Torigai |
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Kaoru Kiryû as Sumiko Aoki |
| Writing | Toshio Kaneko | Novel |
| Directing | Mitsuo Murayama | Director |
| Writing | Takeo Kunihiro | Writer |
| Sound | Seitaro Omori | Original Music Composer |
