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.
Cast
- Terumi Niki as Ritsuko Sekine
- Keiko Torii as Nobue Fujikura
- Kawai Okada as Natsuko Saito
- Yumiko Fujita as Ayako Sakamoto
- Hiromi Kurita
- Midori Kiuchi
- Sanae Kitahara
- Go Wakabayashi
- Toshio Kurosawa
- Yōko Minamida