Drama War History
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
Written by
Takeo Kunihiro
Toshio Kurosawa
Tetsuro Tamba
Minoru Chiaki
Yumiko Fujita
Ayako Sakamoto
Takahiro Tamura
Yōko Minamida
Terumi Niki
Ritsuko Sekine
Midori Kiuchi
Jūkei Fujioka
Go Wakabayashi
Shinichirō Mikami
Shōgo Shimada
Hiromi Kurita
Keiko Torii
Nobue Fujikura
Kawai Okada
Natsuko Saito
Sanae Kitahara
Akira Kume
Keiko Nomura
Yumi Sihida
Nishiki Imadegawa
Keiko Torigai
Kaoru Kiryû
Sumiko Aoki

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