The Sound of Waves

The Sound of Waves

  • Overview
  • Crew

Status

Released

Release Date

Jul 28, 2012

Runtime

2h 22m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

なみのおと

Production Companies

Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts

Director

Ryūsuke Hamaguchi

Description

The first part of a trilogy focusing on the northeast Tohoku region, co-directed by Sakai Ko and Hamaguchi Ryusuke. Impromptu interviews were carried out with disaster victims mainly along the Sanriku Coast, which had been ravaged by tsunamis several times prior to the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011, and makes emotional discoveries within dialogues between close-knit people including families and workmates.