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A SILENT VOICE (KOE NO KATACHI)
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Completed - JAPANESE - Drama, Comedy, Animation - 129 minutes

Previous markets

  • Cannes 2017 (Premiere)
Full history

Year of production : 2016

Director(s) : Naoko YAMADA
Cast : Miyu IRINO, Saori HAYAMI, Aoi YUUKI, Kensho ONO, Yuki KANEKO, Yui ISHIKAWA, Megumi HAN, Toshiyuki TOYONAGA

Synopsis

Shoya Ishida is a reckless young boy whose daily life is centered around school and his friends. Bored, he spends his free time defying his comrades with increasingly extravagant challenges. When deaf Shoko Nishimiya joins their school in the middle of the year, some changes happen in the class’ day-to-day habits. From polite interest to exasperation caused by communication problems, Shoya grabs the opportunity to level up: mockery, bullying, persecution... all this under the indifferent gaze of the teachers. But everythings changes dramatically when Shoko nally gives in and leaves school while Shoya is summoned to the principal’s of ce. Considered as responsible by everyone, he is singled out and given the same treatment. A couple of years later, Shoya, stricken by remorse, starts looking for Shoko to apologize for his behaviour.

Production

Country(ies) : JAPAN

FRANCE Aug 22, 2018 ART HOUSE FILMS
FRANCE VIZ MEDIA EUROP
KOREA (Sou NK CONTENTS
TAIWAN Mar 24, 2017 CAI CHANG INTER
USA Oct 20, 2017 ELEVEN ARTS, IN


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Festivals and Awards

Leeds International Film Festival 2016 (Animation Day)


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