Heat Wave Island

Heat Wave Island — Plot

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.

• Release date
• October 29, 1969
• Runtime
• 104 min
• Genres
• Mystery, Drama
• Director
• Kaneto Shindō

Heat Wave Island — Cast

Nobuko Otowa Otoyo Jūzō Itami Iino Daigo Kusano Tsuda Ichirō Sugai Tanie Kitabayashi Hisano Yamaoka

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Masanobu Oki

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Mika Matsui