Silence Has No Wings
1966 · Movie · 100 min. · Japan
A boy on the northern island of Hokkaido, Japan catches a butterfly from Nagasaki, at the southern end of the archipelago. His teachers think he bought the insect in a department store and lecture him on his fraud. Meanwhile, a larva of that same butterfly embarks on an often comic and always improbable journey from South to North. On that journey the larva appears juxtaposed with a series of failed love affairs, traumatic war memories, disrupted smuggling operations, and corrupt political plots. The film ends where it begins, in Hokkaido with another butterfly caught in the boy’s net.
Direction Kazuo Kuroki
Cast Mariko Kaga · Hosei Komatsu · Toshie Kimura · Takeshi Kusaka · Hiroyuki Nagato · Minoru Nakahira · Shoichi Ozawa · Yukoo Shirukaya · Kunie Tanaka · Fumio Watanabe
Soundtrack Teizo Matsumura
Screenplay Hisaya Iwasa · Kazuo Kuroki · Yasuo Matsukawa
Cinematography Tatsuo Suzuki
Original title Tobenai chinmoku (Silence Has No Wings)
6.9
71 votes (FilmAffinity)
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