Shouya Ishida starts bullying the new girl in class, Shouko Nishimiya, because she is deaf. But as the teasing continues, the rest of the class starts to turn on Shouya for his lack of compassion. When they leave elementary school, Shouko and Shouya do not speak to each other again... until an older, wiser Shouya, tormented by his past behaviour, decides he must see Shouko once more. He wants to atone for his sins, but is it already too late...?
Direction
Yamada's framing turns silence into its own character.
Cinematography
X-shaped compositions everywhere — bonds, barriers, and broken connections.
Sound
Subjective audio design puts you inside deaf experience.
Director
Naoko Yamada
Miyu Irino
Shouya Ishida (voice)
Saori Hayami
Shouko Nishimiya (voice)
Aoi Yuuki
Yuzuru Nishimiya (voice)
Kensho Ono
Tomohiro Nagatsuka (voice)
Yuki Kaneko
Naoka Ueno (voice)
Yui Ishikawa
Miyoko Sahara (voice)
Megumi Han
Miki Kawai (voice)
Toshiyuki Toyonaga
Satoshi Mashiba (voice)
Mayu Matsuoka
Shouya Ishida as an Elementary School Boy (voice)
Sachiko Kojima
Kazuki Shimada as an Elementary School Boy (voice)
Hana Takeda
Keisuke Hirose as an Elementary School Boy (voice)
Fuminori Komatsu
Takeuchi-sensei (voice)
Ikuko Tani
Ito Nishimiya (voice)
Erena Kamata
Maria Ishida (voice)
Ayano Hamaguchi
Shouya's Sister (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
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