THE CRYING WIND is a collaboration between the prize-winning Okinawan writer Medoruma Shun, and the veteran, socially-engaged Japanese film director Higashi Yoichi.

The setting is the present-day, more than fifty years after the end of World War 2, in a small seaside village in northern Okinawa. In an open-air burial ground on a cliff near the ocean, there is a skull of a Japanese kamikaze pilot. The villagers call it the “Crying Head” and fear it　. . .

Based on two short stories, the film has been scripted by the writer himself. Taking place in the setting of Okinawa's abundant natural beauty and the still vivid traces of the war, the story centers on the vibrant lives of young boys within a web of encounter and parting of people in the village.

This film won the Innovation Award at the Montreal World Film Festival 2004,for its poetic quality.

Feature／35mm／color／Standard (1:1.37)／106min／Analog DTS／2004 original dialogue：Japanese