Silence Has No Wings (1966)

6.9/10 100 min Drama

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

Kazuhiko Kasai

Eijirō Tōno

Nobutaka Masutomi

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