Heat Wave Island

Original title: かげろう

104 minutes • 1969 • 6.0 Score

Otowa is 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 Shindō

Director