Heat Wave Island

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.

• Kaneto ShindōDirector
• Hikaru HayashiOriginal Music Composer
• Kaneto ShindōScreenplay

• Nobuko OtowaOtoyo
• Jūzō ItamiIino
• Daigo KusanoTsuda
• Ichirō SugaiCast
• Tanie KitabayashiCast
• Hisano YamaokaCast
• Masanobu OkiCast
• Mika MatsuiCast
• Jūkichi UnoCast
• Eitarō OzawaCast
• Rika MizukiCast
• Ken YoshizawaCast