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.
Takeo Kunihiro
Writer
Mitsuo Murayama
Director

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
Waiting for Anya62%
Ararat61%
Devotion70%
Jacknife63%
The Scarlet and the Black70%
Flags of Our Fathers68%
The Last Rifleman66%
The Monuments Men60%
The Kill Team64%
Beneath Hill 6069%
Letters from Iwo Jima75%
Emperor62%
Max61%
The Grey Zone66%
A Midnight Clear65%
Munich - The Edge of War69%
Operation Mincemeat65%
Battle of the Bulge68%
The Thin Red Line74%
The Beast70%