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Hear the Song of the Wind

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Original title

Kaze no uta o kike (Hear the Song of the Wind) (Hear the Wind Sing)

Year

1980

Running time

103 min.

Country

Japan

Director

Kazuki Omori

Screenwriter

Kazuki Omori. Story: Haruki Murakami

Cast

Music

Shuichi Chino

Cinematography

Kenji Watanabe

Producer

Art Theatre Guild, Cinema House

Genre

Drama

Movie Groups

Haruki Murakami Adaptations

Synopsis

Here’s Omori second movie directed for the ATG Studio. It is, as most people would know, the transposition to the screen of Murakami Haruki’s very first and eponymous novel. The novel itself is hard to describe in another way than a “conceptual” novel, as it is obviously no “watakushi shōsetsu (I novel)”. It is quite a unique movie, with an arty-experimental flavor. Some of you might recognize Kuroki Kazuo playing a little role as a psychologist.

The narrator « I » (Kobayashi Kaoru), a student in his twenties is coming back in Kobe for the summer vacation. During the summer, he’ll catch up with his old buddy whose nickname is Rat (Makigami Koichi), talk the talk with Jay (Sakata Akira) the bartender, and meet a mysterious twin girl (Shingyōji Kimie). Mixing up temporality, dreams, memories, present actions and future ones all together the story is very close to what could be called a patch-work.

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Hear the Song of the Wind

1980

Kazuki Omori