Tag: The Phone of the Wind

On August 31st, I received a red dial-type public telephone from Amami Oshima. This is a phone call made in the 1960s with a 10-yen coin. As young people today may not know, it is a nostalgic thing for us in our age.

Mr. Nobuo Yasushi, a former NTT employee of Amami Oshima, who watched TV for 24 hours, learned that “Wind Phone” is a mental support for the victims, and he damaged the phone he kept at home. I have contacted you to help the area.

Even now, eight years after the earthquake, many people still visit “Wind Phone” and continue to talk with people who cannot meet quietly in the telephone booth. It is known that there is one dial-type black telephone and a notebook in the telephone booth, and the telephone line is not connected anywhere. The image may be corrupted with a red phone. Therefore, if you decline there, you will end up saying “Is that so?” However, we learned the importance of “bonds and ties” in the disaster. I wanted to cherish the “connection” with Amami, which is far away. That’s why I replied, “I’ll have it.”

After that, Mr. Tamotsu contacted the newspaper company. The “Amami Shimbun” and “Nankai Nihon Shimbun” also contacted us and said, “Isn’t the real intention a nuisance?” And “I’m glad that Amami was involved in the reconstruction support for East Japan.”

The old telephone booth that was replaced last year is placed in the Kikki Forest as a garden object. A visitor from Kanagawa called, “I came to’Wind Phone’, but I don’t have a phone.” “I’m sorry, the real thing is at the bottom. Please use that.” It’s rude to say that it was funny. Also, in the picture book “Kaze no Denwa”, a red phone is drawn. Because of these things, I think that it is an “edge” that includes everything. Thank you very much.

This year’s 24HOUR TV also had many moving programs. Although it is a moment when the audience rating and the marathon are aired, the number is close to 40%. “Wind Phone” is a little lower at 18%, but it’s still a great number.

Many people were impressed by the voices that the tears did not stop. There were some voices saying, “I’ve watched all the broadcasts of ‘Wind Phone’ so far, and it was the best.” I think that the work produced by producer Ikeda over three months has been recognized by many people. Even so, I think that Mr. Fujisawa’s “To those who can’t tell even if they want to tell” has grabbed the hearts of many people. I think it’s a good example that the attitude of pursuing the truth by eliminating the harassment is very moving.

Everyone can create and think of his story as alive in his life. There are loved ones, lovers, friends and acquaintances. It is a story to have dreams and hopes and live affluently. And when you lose your loved one, the story is interrupted there. Dreams and hopes will be cut off. Those who are left behind in a sudden interruption are overwhelmed by grief, suffering from remorse and regret, being confused and losing reality, and being able to cry. Some people are reluctant to go out or meet people even if they have a mental pain that they cannot hold.

When a loved one is lost, it is his sensibility and imagination that heals the sadness of the bereaved. Humans have a spiritual activity to recover what they have lost, and healing requires the creation of a new future through the imaginary world of being reconnected to the dead.

Speaking in the “Wind Phone” box, now when trying to communicate with the deceased, must organize and speak the thoughts that are confused and in a fragmented thought circuit. Self-questioning and self-answering can be used to organize your thoughts. Talking to oneself is, in other words, the discovery of oneself, and self-consciousness manifests itself in the form of words. It reveals what you are sad, what you are angry with, and what you are worried about. And self-questioning will lead to looking back on the story so far and creating a continuation of the new story. These series of actions will bring back the cut off days even for a moment, and those who are left behind must be aware of the new development of the story, and can gain the power to live in the creation of a new story. increase. I think this is what makes it possible to change consciousness from the grief by “Wind Phone”.

I pray that Mr. Fujisawa of Kitakami City will create a new story by spitting out the painful chest with “Wind Phone”, and that a new family will live with hope.

Another factor that impressed the “Wind Phone” program was Masafumi Akikawa, who sang “Become a Thousand Winds” with the video in the background, more than any other Thousand Winds I’ve ever heard. I felt it was good. He would have been still touching if he had sung in front of “Wind Phone”.

The photo above is a commemorative two-shot with the announcer Hatori after the interview. In the program, the announcer Hatori was also impressed by the moderator who was beyond tears. We look forward to your continued warm sympathy for “Wind Phone”.

Nippon Television, this year’s “24 HOUR TV”, will be aired on August 25, and here we will introduce the “Wind Phone” that was produced over three months.

Since it is before the airing, the introduction of the photos has been stopped, but I would like to inform everyone who is sympathetic to “Wind Phone” by posting it on the blog. The time is not certain yet, but it is scheduled to start around 9:45 am. (Schedule may be changed.) I think you can experience the excitement that has not been seen in the media so far.

The movie production, main cast, director, etc. of “Wind Phone”, 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 “Wind Phone”, “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.

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[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 “Wind Phone” 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 “Wind Phone”. 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.

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[Itaru Sasaki, “Wind Phone” installer]
“Wind Phone” 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 “Wind Phone”. 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.

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Shooting with “Wind Phone” will be on April 30th.

This movie will be a national road show in early spring 2020.