“The Phone of the Wind” will be a movie!
The movie production, main cast, director, etc. of “The Phone of the Wind”, which has been underway since last fall, has been decided and information will be released.
Performers: Serena Motola, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Tomokazu Miura, Toshiyuki Nishida
Director: Atsuhiko Suwa “Ⅿ / OTHER”, “The Lion Sleeps Tonight”
Theatrical release is scheduled for early spring 2020, distributed by Broadmedia Studios. In this movie, a girl returns from Hiroshima to her hometown of Iwate, and through the journey to reach “The Phone of the Wind”, “Relief of the Injured Heart” and the important things we are forgetting are engraved through the video. It is the contents to go.
Director Suwa and my comments were introduced at the crank-in.
[Director Atsuhiko Suwa]
We, who cannot wing a smartphone for a while, fall into the illusion that we are connected to all the world with just one hand operation. However, we may have forgotten that there are people and the world that are not so easily connected. The “The Phone of the Wind” is quietly placed on a hill in Otsuchi Town, Iwate Prefecture. There are no easy-to-understand signs or guide maps, and it seems as if you are inviting us to travel, saying, “Come on, come here on your own.” From the time of visiting Kumano, traveling is an act of rebirth to be reborn. We will also travel with the injured hero Haru’s soul, aiming for a “The Phone of the Wind”. For me, it’s been a long time since I shot in Japan, but like the signpost, wonderful performers will participate. I think a movie shows something and at the same time creates something invisible. I hope this movie will be a journey that can restore the power of creativity.
[Itaru Sasaki, “The Phone of the Wind” installer]
“The Phone of the Wind” is a phone that conveys your feelings to people you can’t meet. The desire to connect with the dead can give people hope to live. In life, one can create his own story and think of it as alive. When a loved one is lost, it is his sensibility and imagination that heals the sadness of the bereaved. Humans have a desire to regain what they have lost. Healing requires a new story through the imagination of being reconnected to the deceased.
This time, it was decided to make a movie of “The Phone of the Wind”. The main character, Haru, who lost her parents in the great earthquake, gradually opens her heart to the kindness of various people during her journey. While visiting her hometown of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, and asking herself, she realizes that her life is always meaningful. She says she’s “questioned by life” right now, so no matter how painful it is now, she doesn’t have to throw everything away.
Shooting with “The Phone of the Wind” will be on April 30th.
This movie will be a national road show in early spring 2020.
The 2nd “The Phone of the Wind” Music Festival Live & Talk will be held
Yesterday, the third executive committee of the “The Phone of the Wind” Music Festival was held. After confirming the appearance of 9 groups of individuals and groups at that seat, it was decided to hold the event.
*The photo shows the state of the last music festival
At this music festival, people who sympathize with “The Phone of the Wind” meet in Kikki no Mori, and for various reasons, they are close to people who have grief, share and support each other, and the children who will bear the future. We aim to nurture sensibilities. When I talk to today’s children, the words “know” and “know” are returned. But I know, but I don’t feel it. Knowing is not half as important as feeling. It is necessary to experience knowledge with sensitivity, so-called experience. Even if you know it as knowledge in your head, you cannot acquire it unless you feel it in your heart. That’s why bullying doesn’t go away. Adults and children, professionals and amateurs who make full use of the five senses in nature, sing and play together, and the children’s liveliness, freshness, beauty and excitement are shared together. I think that is the very thing that is by my side. One day, this music festival will trigger the birth of an artist, and I have a dream that the town will lead to the promotion of culture and art.
Date and time: Sunday, April 28, 2019, 11:00 am to 15:00 pm
Social gathering (music festival venue) from 15:00 Participation fee: Free
On the day of the event, we will share the Christmas rose seedlings at a bargain price, just like last time.
Reading Week Memorial Lecture at Morioka Municipal Library
On the day of the event, about life and death seen through “The Phone of the Wind”, Grief Care with “The Phone of the Wind” fosters sensibility and imagination at the library in the forest. In addition, I would like to talk about the activities of the Kenji Miyazawa Study Group. If you are not in a hurry, please visit the Morioka Municipal Library. We look forward to.
Poster from Iwate Reading Week Memorial Lecture
The 2nd book “‘The Phone of the Wind’ and Grief Care” Publishing
October 31st, the second book, “‘The Phone of the Wind’ and Grief Care”. It was published with a title about care that is close to the heart. This is an edited book with Dr. Yanaga of the Infection Control Center, Keio University School of Medicine.
The first work, “The Phone of the Wind,” is about why it was created, what you see, what you think, and what you are trying to do. And in his second book, he carefully picks up the messages of those who visit the wind phone and examines the process of grief and grief care from multiple perspectives. It is a must-see book for helpers involved in disaster relief, bereaved family and care for caregivers.
The text explains that “The Phone of the Wind” by Dr. Van Dyke, an American psychiatrist, is a therapy performed by a person holding a grief without a therapist. In addition, Professor Ian Jared Miller of Harvard University talks about his own views such as why he is incorporating “The Phone of the Wind” in his classes at Harvard University.
It is on sale at bookstores nationwide or Amazon.