Synopsis
THE CRYING WIND is a collaboration between the prize-winning Okinawan writer Shun MEDORUMA, and the veteran, socially-engaged Japanese film director Yoichi HIGASHI.
The setting is the present-day, more than fifty years after the end of World War 2, in a small seaside village in northern Okinawa. In an open-air burial ground on a cliff near the ocean, there is a skull of a Japanese kamikaze pilot. The villagers call it the “Crying Head” and fear it . . .
Based on two short stories, the film has been scripted by the writer himself. Taking place in the setting of Okinawa's abundant natural beauty and the still vivid traces of the war, the story centers on the vibrant lives of young boys within a web of encounter and parting of people in the village.
This film won the Innovation Award at the Montreal World Film Festival 2004,for its poetic quality.
Feature/35mm/color/Standard (1:1.37)/106min/Analog DTS/2004 original dialogue: Japanese
Staff & Cast
STAFF
- Produced by Tetsujiro YAMAGAMI
- Original Novel and Screenplay by Shun MEDORUMA
- Directed by Yoichi HIGASHI
- Camera by Takahiro TSUTAI
- Lighting by Yoshitake HIKITA
- Art Direction by Etsuko YOSHIDA
- Set Decoration by Hirohide SHIBATA
- Sound Recording by Hitoshi TSURUMAKI
- Sound Mix by Kenji SHIBASAKI
- Assistant Director Atsushi KANESHIGE
- Unit Production Manager Yuji MORISAKI
- Production Manager Masaaki SASAKI
- Line Producer Ken IKEHARA
Cast
- Haruko KATO
- Muneo UEMA
- Miho TSUMIKI
- Ken MITSUISHI
- Takahito HOSOYAMADA
- Mio KATO
- Asaya SHIMABUKURO
- Tomoya IJU
- Akira FUKUHARA
- Fumio HARUYA
- Saburo KITAMURA
- Taeko YOSHIDA
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