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