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Silence Has No Wings

6.9

86

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Original title

Tobenai chinmoku (Silence Has No Wings)

Year

1966

Running time

100 min.

Country

Japan

Director

Kazuo Kuroki

Screenwriter

Hisaya Iwasa, Kazuo Kuroki, Yasuo Matsukawa

Cast

Music

Teizo Matsumura

Cinematography

Tatsuo Suzuki (B&W)

Producer

Eiga Shinsha

Genre

Drama | Experimental Cinema

Synopsis

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.

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Silence Has No Wings

1966

Kazuo Kuroki

6.9

(86)