Silence Has No Wings (1966)
Overview
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
Hiroyuki Nagato
Shoichi Ozawa
Fumio Watanabe
Kyū Sazanka
Rokkō Toura
Toshie Kimura
Yukio Ninagawa
Hōsei Komatsu
Kunie Tanaka
Takeshi Kusaka
Sumiko Sakamoto
Kazuhiko Kasai
Eijirō Tōno
Nobutaka Masutomi
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