THE SOUND OF GRASS

草の響き

By Hisashi SAITO

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Book adaptation - Completed 2021

Based on Yasushi Sato(1949-1990)'s novel who left many works issued and adapted to films: Sketches of Kaitan City (2010, directed by Kazuyoshi Kumakiri), The Light Shines Only There (2014, by Mipo O), Over the Fence (2016, by Nobuhiro Yamashita), And Your Bird Can Sing (2018, by Sho Miyake)

    • Year of production
    • 2021
    • Genres
    • Book adaptation, Drama
    • Countries
    • JAPAN
    • Languages
    • JAPANESE
    • Duration
    • 116 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Hisashi SAITO
    • Writer(s)
    • Hitomi KASE
    • Producer(s)
    • Kazuhiro SUGAWARA, Yutaka SUZUKI
    • Synopsis
    • Kazuo Kudo returns to his hometown of Hakodate with his wife because of his autonomic ataxia. Kazuo, who is not able to work and has to attend the psychiatry regularly, continues to run in the city of Hakodate for mental treatment on sunny days and rainy days. When Kazuo comes to communicate with the young people he meets on the street, something begins to change...