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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.
Director
Mitsuo Murayama
Production
Toei Company
Cast
Terumi Niki
Ritsuko Sekine
K
Keiko Torii
Nobue Fujikura
K
Kawai Okada
Natsuko Saito
Yumiko Fujita
Ayako Sakamoto
Hiromi Kurita
Midori Kiuchi
S
Sanae Kitahara
Go Wakabayashi
Toshio Kurosawa
Yōko Minamida
