Berlin Hidden Gem: 'Voices in the Wind' Depicts a Sense of Connection in Japan

VoicesintheWind follows a 17-year-old who hitchhikes the 850 miles from Hiroshima back to Otsuchi eight years after the tsunami wiped out her family

More than 30,000 people have used the phone booth in Otsuchi to"talk" to deceased loved ones.

There is a white telephone booth with a rotary phone connected to nowhere that sits atop a hill overlooking the town of Otsuchi on Japan’s northeast coast. More than 30,000 people have used it to "speak” to deceased loved ones. Itaru Sasaki, a sprightly local surfer in his 60s, built the Kaze no Denwa in 2010 as a way of connecting with his cousin who had recently died.

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