Karafuto 1945 Summer

APPROPIATE

1974 / 119min.

Rating8.5

Genres

Drama

War

History

Synopsis

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.

Directors

Actors

Takahiro Tamura

Tetsuro Tamba

Yōko Minamida

Toshio Kurosawa

Yumiko Fujita

Minoru Chiaki

Jūkei Fujioka

Akira Kume

Midori Kiuchi

Shinichirō Mikami

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