El teléfono del viento (2020)

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Voices in the Wind is a 2020 drama film directed by Nobuhiro Suwa and co-written by Suwa and Kyoko Inukai. Suwa's first film based in Japan in eighteen years, it follows Haruka on her impromptu road trip from Hiroshima to her hometown of Ōtsuchi eight years after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami took the lives of her parents and brother. The film is named after and involves the wind phone, a real installation in Ōtsuchi.

Production

During auditions, Motola was asked to first read a scene aloud with a script, after which she was asked to improvise with hardly any context other than setting. In preparing for her audition, Motola had found her sides so sad that she hesitated to audition, though she continued with it nonetheless. Upon landing the role, Motola felt a true desire to take on the role of Haru.

Like with some of his previous movies, Suwa directed the film without a script, still preferring improvisation both with regard to the acting performances as well as the handheld camera techniques employed for shooting. Many scenes, such as Haru and Morio's communion with the Kurdish people in Japan and the final conversation Haru has at the wind phone, were shot as though it were a documentary rather than a drama.

Shooting began in April 2019 with plans for release in spring of the following year. Early preview screenings were held at the end of 2019, including in Ōtsuchi. Following the film's completion and plans for distribution in January 2020, a crowdfunding campaign was organized in order to show it in more theaters nationwide, as well as parts of Japan which didn't have cinemas.

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