Karafuto 1945 Summer

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.

Directed by Mitsuo Murayama

Top cast

Terumi Niki

Ritsuko Sekine

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Keiko Torii

Nobue Fujikura

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Kawai Okada

Natsuko Saito

Yumiko Fujita

Ayako Sakamoto

Hiromi Kurita

Midori Kiuchi

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Sanae Kitahara

Go Wakabayashi

Toshio Kurosawa

Yōko Minamida

Minoru Chiaki

Shinichirō Mikami

Jūkei Fujioka

Akira Kume

Tetsuro Tamba

Takahiro Tamura

Shōgo Shimada

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Keiko Nomura

Yumi Sihida

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Nishiki Imadegawa

Keiko Torigai

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Kaoru Kiryû

Sumiko Aoki

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