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Heat Wave Island (1969)
Directed by Kaneto Shindō
Mystery, Drama · 1h 44m
Nobuko Otowa plays a former Seto Inland Sea island farmer who has moved to the mainland in order to find work, but instead ends up dead. The film begins with the discovery of her corpse, which leads to an investigation that uncovers the narcotics, prostitution, and murder in which many poor farmers had found themselves trapped after World War II.
Cast
Nobuko Otowa
Jūzō Itami
Daigo Kusano
Ichirō Sugai
Tanie Kitabayashi
Hisano Yamaoka
Jūkichi Uno
Eitarō Ozawa
Ken Yoshizawa
Crew
- Director
- Kaneto Shindō
- Screenplay
- Kaneto Shindō
- Director of Photography
- Kiyomi Kuroda
- Original Music Composer
- Hikaru Hayashi
- Producer
- Kazuo Kuwahara, Hisao Itoya, Setsuo Noto
Details
- Original title
- かげろう
- Release date
- 1969-10-29
- Runtime
- 1h 44m
- Genres
- Mystery, Drama
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Kindai Eiga Kyokai