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Silence Has No Wings

1966 · 100 min Drama
6.8 / 10 · TMDB

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.

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Original Title とべない沈黙
Year 1966
Country Japan
Genre Drama
Director Kazuo Kuroki
Runtime 100 min.
Rating TMDB: 6.8/10 (18 votes)

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The film unfolds as a series of poetic vignettes, connected by the fragile thread of a journey. It is a meditation on memory, loss, and the unspoken trauma of a generation, where silence carries more weight than dialogue.

What lingers after the final frame is a profound sense of shared melancholy and a quiet, haunting beauty found in the aftermath of devastation. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Kazuo Kuroki

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In contemplative silence, with full attention, allowing the imagery and mood to settle.

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