Silence Has No Wings

1h 40m
Drama
6.8

After a young boy captures a rare butterfly in Nagasaki, a caterpillar begins a relay-trip toward the northern tip of Hokkaido, serving as a silent witness to a series of vignettes featuring people struggling with the psychological and social scars of post-war Japan.

Cast

Mariko Kaga
Unknown
Hiroyuki Nagato
Unknown
Shoichi Ozawa
Unknown
Fumio Watanabe
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Kyū Sazanka
Unknown
Rokkō Toura
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Toshie Kimura
Unknown
Yukio Ninagawa
Unknown
Masahiko Naruse
Unknown
Hōsei Komatsu
Unknown
Kunie Tanaka
Unknown
Takeshi Kusaka
Unknown
Hiroshi Mizushima
Unknown
Sumiko Sakamoto
Unknown
Kazuhiko Kasai
Unknown
Keisuke Tate
Unknown
Eijirō Tōno
Unknown
Nobutaka Masutomi
Unknown
Toyoko Iwasaki
Unknown
Toshiya Sugita
Unknown
Koreya Senda
Unknown

Crew

Kazuo Kuroki
Director, Screenplay, Editor
Yasuo Matsukawa
Screenplay
Hisaya Iwasa
Screenplay
Tatsuo Suzuki
Director of Photography
Nobuyo Horiba
Producer
Kazuo Baba
Producer
Ichiro Kato
Sound Recordist
Yoshio Unno
Lighting Technician
Teizō Matsumura
Original Music Composer
Hiroshi Yamashita
Art Direction

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