Heat Wave Island

1969 Japanese film

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. "かげろう". Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese). Retrieved 16 August 2023.
2. "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