Karafuto 1945 Summer
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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.
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Cast
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Terumi Niki
Ritsuko Sekine
Known for
Red Beard
Evil Dead Trap
Keiko Torii
Nobue Fujikura
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Seitaro Omori
Mitsuo Murayama
Toshio Kaneko
Makoto Miike
Kawai Okada
Natsuko Saito
Also in
Red Lion
A Man Called Tiger
Takeo Kunihiro
Toshio Mochizuki
Yumiko Fujita
Ayako Sakamoto
Known for
The Bullet Train
Glory to the Filmmaker!
Kôji Morita
Hiromi Kurita
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Mitsuo Murayama Director · Takeo Kunihiro Writer Toshio Kaneko Author
Budget $15M · First release August 17, 1974 · Produced in Japan
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$15,000,000
Production
Toei Company
Production
Japan
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Original title
樺太1945年夏 氷雪の門
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Japan · August 17, 1974
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No release date listed for United States.
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