Heat Wave Island

1969 Japanese film

  • Kaneto Shindō
  • Isao Seki
Produced by
  • Hisao Itoya
  • Setsuo Noto
  • Kazuo Kuwahara
Starring
CinematographyKiyomi KurodaEdited byHisao EnokiMusic byHikaru Hayashi
Production
company
Distributed byShochiku
Release date
  • 29 October 1969 (1969-10-29) (Japan)[1][2]
Running time
103 minutesCountryJapanLanguageJapanese

Heat Wave Island (かげろう, Kagerō, lit. "Heat haze") is a 1969 Japanese drama film directed by Kaneto Shindō.[1][2]

Cast

  • Nobuko Otowa as Otoyo
  • Juzo Itami as Iino
  • Rokkō Toura as Oishi
  • Daigo Kusano as Tsuchida
  • Taiji Tonoyama as mayor
  • Masako Toyama as Goto Michiko
  • Ken Yoshizawa as Hiroshi Hori
  • Ichirō Sugai as fisherman
  • Eitarō Ozawa as hospital director
  • Jūkichi Uno as Yo's father

Reception

Heat Wave Island reached number four on Kinema Junpo's Ten Best Japanese Films of 1969.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b "かげろう". Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese). Retrieved 16 August 2023.
  2. ^ a b "かげろう". Kinema Junpo (in Japanese). Retrieved 16 August 2023.
  3. ^ "キネマ旬報 ベスト・テン 1969年・第43回". Kinema Junpo (in Japanese). Retrieved 16 August 2023.

External links

  • Heat Wave Island at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
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