Film

The Crying Wind

2004 · 1h 46m · Drama

IMDb

6.8

Seikichi, makes his living fishing from a small boat off the coast of Okinawa. He and his 12-year-old grandson Akira live in a small, tree-lined village in the northern part of the island which is surrounded by a white-sand beach and plots of pine and flowering bushes. On the cliff that skirts the shore sits an open-air burial ground containing the skull of a kamikaze pilot who was shot down during the last days of World War II. When the wind blows through the bullet hole in the skull, it produces a whistling sound. The locals call it the "Crying Head."

Muneo Uema

Seikichi Toma

Haruko Katō

Shiho Fujino

Miho Tsumiki

Kazue Shimazaki

Ken Mitsuishi

Hisaki Shimazaki

Saburo Kitamura

Ishikawa

Taeko Yoshida

Makoto Kinjo

Fumio Haruya

Takahito Hosoyamada

Shinichi Kano

Mio Kato

Shiho at the age of 17

• Yōichi HigashiDirector
• Shun MedorumaWriter
• Tetsujirô YamagamiProducer
• Takahiro TsutaiDirector of Photography

Release date

July 31, 2004

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 46m

Genres

Drama