Heat Wave Island

Heat Wave Island
かげろう
Directed by	Kaneto Shindō
Screenplay by	Kaneto Shindō Isao Seki
Produced by	Hisao Itoya Setsuo Noto Kazuo Kuwahara
Starring	Nobuko Otowa Juzo Itami Rokkō Toura
Cinematography	Kiyomi Kuroda
Edited by	Hisao Enoki
Music by	Hikaru Hayashi
Production company	Kindai Eiga Kyokai
Distributed by	Shochiku
Release date	29 October 1969 (1969-10-29) (Japan)[1][2]
Running time	103 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

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