Saturday, December 8, 2012, 7:30 p.m.

Theater 2 (The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2), T2

Silence Has No Wings

1966. Japan. Directed by Kazuo Kuroki. Screenplay by Yasuo Matsukawa, Hisaya Iwasa, Kazuo Kuroki. With Mariko Kaga, Minoru Hiranaka, Rokko Toura. A strange and wondrously imaginative film: Kuroki’s meditation on the history and politics of postwar Japan is told through the fanciful and difficult journey of a caterpillar from the south of Japan to the north, and through its metamorphosis into a butterfly and a beautiful, elusive young woman. Silence Has No Wings has a breathtaking formal audacity, with soaring cinematography by the great Tatsuo Suzuki and an ethereal soundscape that interweaves voices both real and imagined. Print lent by The Japan Foundation; courtesy Toho Distribution. In Japanese; English subtitles. 100 min.

Image: Tobenai Chinmoku (Silence Has No Wings). 1966. Japan. Directed by Kazuo Kuroki

Silence Has No Wings

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