The Crying Wind

The Crying Wind — Plot

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."

• Release date
• July 31, 2004
• Runtime
• 106 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Yōichi Higashi

The Crying Wind — Cast

M

Muneo Uema Seikichi Toma Haruko Katō Shiho Fujino Miho Tsumiki Kazue Shimazaki Ken Mitsuishi Hisaki Shimazaki

S

Saburo Kitamura Ishikawa

T

Taeko Yoshida Makoto Kinjo

F

Fumio Haruya Takahito Hosoyamada Shinichi Kano