Voices in the Wind (2020)

Original title

風の電話

Directed by

Nobuhiro Suwa

Genre

drama film

Country

Japan

Runtime

2h 19m

Rated

G

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 22 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young woman named Haruka goes on an unplanned road trip from Hiroshima to her hometown eight years after a tsunami killed her family. Along the way she finds a wind phone where people speak to their lost loved ones.

contemplativemelancholicgentleintrospectiveslow-burnsombermeditativebittersweetquiet

What happens

Voices in the Wind (Japanese: 風の電話, Hepburn: Kaze no denwa; lit. Wind's Phone) is a 2020 drama film directed by Nobuhiro Suwa and co-written by Suwa and Kyoko Inukai. Suwa's first film based in Japan in eighteen years, it follows Haruka (acted by Serena Motola) on her impromptu road trip from Hiroshima to her hometown of Ōtsuchi eight years after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami took the lives of her parents and brother. The film is named after and involves the wind phone, a real installation in Ōtsuchi. Distributed by Broadmedia Studios, the film was officially released in Japan on January 24, 2020. It was also screened at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival in Germany and won Special Mention for the Grand Prix of the Generation 14Plus International Jury for the Best Film category. It was Suwa's second film to be entered into the Generation 14Plus competition, his first being Yuki & Nina in 2009. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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