Kaze no Dadu Inochi no Hibiki

[Machine Translation] A masterpiece of animal films running through Japan! A touching story of a girl and a horse! When you have lost the hope to live, what will give you back the strength to live? Dadu" (dialect for "dada-do") is a sound like the whistling of the wind inside a horse's body (the sound of its intestines moving). Ayumi, a 16-year-old girl with a deep psychological scar, regains the strength to live by listening to the sound of the horse and the dadu in the great outdoors. This is a moving film that gives the audience the courage and hope to live along with the main character. Directed by Shinichi Nakata, a master of animal films whose works include "The Life of Don Matsugoro" and "Cats on Performance Street" as well as "PiPi: The Firefly Who Couldn't Fly" which won a gold medal at an international film festival. The film tells a moving story about a horse, a subject that has always been close to his heart. The lead role is played by the promising Fumino Kimura, who also played the heroine in "Adan," a biographical film about the life of the isolated Japanese painter Isson Tanaka, directed by Takumi Igarashi ("Sayonara if you step on a land mine").

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日本中を駆け抜ける動物映画の名作!! 少女と馬の感動ストーリー!! 生きる希望を失ってしまったとき、なにが生きる力を取り戻させてくれるのか。"ダドゥ"("駄動"の方言)とは、馬の体内から聞こえる風のうなりのような音のこと(腸が動く音)。心に深い傷を負った16歳の少女・歩美は、大自然の中、馬とともにダドゥに耳を澄ますことで、生きていく力を取り戻していく。主人公といっしょに観客も生きる勇気や希望が湧いてくる感動作。監督は「ドン松五郎の生活」「公演通りの猫たち」、国際映画祭にて金賞を受賞した「PiPiとべないホタル」など、動物映画の巨匠・中田新一! 思い入れのあった"馬"をテーマに、感動のストーリーを展開。主演は「地雷を踏んだらサヨウナラ」の五十嵐匠監督が、孤高の日本画家・田中一村の生涯を描いた伝記映画「アダン」でも、ヒロインを演じた期待の木村文乃。