A Whistle in My Heart (1959)

Original title

コタンの口笛

Directed by

Mikio Naruse

Genre

drama film

Country

Japan

Runtime

2h 06m

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A young Ainu protagonist deals with ethnic discrimination from the Japanese majority. The story follows their personal struggles and the eventual easing of tensions between the two communities.

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What happens

Kotan no Kuchibue (コタンの口笛, ''Kotan no Kuchibue''? Susurros en Kotan) es una novela escrita por Nobuo Ishimori (石森延男, Nobuo Ishimori?), con ilustraciones de Yoshiharu Suzuki. Fue publicada en 1957 en dos volúmenes, Arashi no uta (あらしの歌, 'Arashi no uta'?) y Hikari no uta (光の歌, 'Hikari no uta'?). La trama cuenta con una persona Ainu como protagonista y describe la discriminación de su etnia por parte de la población japonesa, mencionados con el término wajin (和人, 'wajin'?), y la subsecuente reconciliación entre ambos grupos. En 1959 la novela contó con una adaptación cinematográfica dirigida por Mikio Naruse y distribuida por la productora Toho, titulada en inglés como "Whistling in Kotan" o "A Whistle in My Heart".​ (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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