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Heat Wave Island

6.7 average rating
★★★★★
6.7
Japanese / 104 MIN. / 1969

The Genres

The Synopsis

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.

The Cast

Nobuko OtowaJūzō ItamiDaigo KusanoIchirō SugaiTanie KitabayashiHisano YamaokaMasanobu OkiMika MatsuiJūkichi UnoEitarō OzawaRika MizukiKen YoshizawaHideo KanzeRokkō TouraTaiji TonoyamaTsutomu Akashi

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