Karafuto 1945 Summer

The story

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.

Cast & crew

Terumi NikiRitsuko Sekine

Keiko Torii

Keiko ToriiNobue Fujikura

Kawai Okada

Kawai OkadaNatsuko Saito

Yumiko FujitaAyako Sakamoto

Hiromi KuritaCast

Midori KiuchiCast

Sanae Kitahara

Sanae KitaharaCast

Go WakabayashiCast

Toshio KurosawaCast

Yōko MinamidaCast

Minoru ChiakiCast

Shinichirō MikamiCast