Children in the Wind

On the eve of the holiday a boy is sent to live with his uncle in the country. The reason is that his father has gone to prison on a charge of embezzlement. For the boy it means being separated from his home and his brother. In the new place he has to get used to everything again. The film tells the events at the child’s height; the world of adults always stands a little way off. Whether the charge is true is not at the centre of the account; the boy’s days are. It is one of the Japanese films of 1937 to take children as its subject. The eighty eight minutes are spread over a summer. Masao Hayama and Mitsuko Yoshikawa appear in Hiroshi Shimizu’s Japanese film, completed in 1937.